Orange County Indexed
John Byas to Josiah Blackwell
23 January 1772 · ODB 3/359
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 23 January 1772
- From
- John Byas
- To
- Josiah Blackwell
- Land
- 100 acres
- Waterways
- on Mill Creek
- Neighbors
- John Gunn
- Roads and landmarks
- the Great Road
- Earlier title
- Granville to William Chambers
- Citation
- ODB 3/359
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: Gv342, to William Chambers, 17 July 1760, 280 acres, on Hughes Mill Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-G
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 827
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1618
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 3/359). Our record above is drawn from it.
