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Orange County Indexed

Joseph Barbee to Thomas Wooten

24 July 1770 · ODB 3/321

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 July 1770
From
Joseph Barbee
To
Thomas Wooten
Land
451 acres
Waterways
on Crabtree Creek; on Marks Branch
Neighbors
Francis Jones
Earlier title
Granville to Charles Young
Citation
ODB 3/321
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 1796
  • Earlier title: Patent Book 14:262

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 3/321). Our record above is drawn from it.

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