Orange County Indexed
William Downin to James Newlin
18 July 1781 · ODB 3/387
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 18 July 1781
- From
- William Downin
- To
- James Newlin
- Land
- 240 acres
- Waterways
- on Haw River; on Cane Creek
- Earlier title
- Granville to George Williams 12 May 1753
- Citation
- ODB 3/387
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: Gv13, to George Williams, 2 May 1753, 640 acres, on S side of Haw River, on N side of Cane Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-H
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 77
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 3/387). Our record above is drawn from it.
