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James McDaniel & Mary McDaniel to Lewis Barton

24 March 1770 · ODB 3/305

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 March 1770
From
James McDaniel; Mary McDaniel
To
Lewis Barton
Land
116 acres
Waterways
both sides of Country Line Creek
Neighbors
Thomas Laban; Lynn
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Laxon
Citation
ODB 3/305
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: Gv908, to Thomas Laxon, 381 acres, on Country Line Creek, adj Joseph Dolittle
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1235
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 889

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 3/305). Our record above is drawn from it.

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