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Orange County Indexed

John Dowell by Sheriff to Nathaniel Walton

26 July 1769 · ODB 3/241

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
26 July 1769
From
John Dowell
To
Nathaniel Walton
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
146 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Earlier title
Granville to William Reed
Citation
ODB 3/241
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (State Archives film).

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Title and grant references

  • Granville grant: Gv139, to William Reed, 20 February 1756, 292 acres, on branches of Eno River, adj Isaac Jackson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 624
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 578
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1472
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2335

From the bracketed notes in Mark Chilton’s deed-book posts. OCPQS is the minutes of the Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; RegLn is a line of the colonial Register of Orange.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 3 (look for ODB 3/241). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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