Orange County Indexed

John Ward to William Buster

15 March 1770 · ODB 3/288

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 15 March 1770
From: John Ward
To: William Buster
Land: 265 acres
Waterways: both sides of Wolf Island Creek
Neighbors: Ward
Earlier title: Jeremiah Ward to John Ward
Citation: ODB 3/288
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

Register of Orange reference: RegLn 888
Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1648
Later title: GDB 1/402 (Claudius Buster)

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 3/288). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.