John Dismukes to Ambrose Gatewood

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

20 September 1771

From

John Dismukes

To

Ambrose Gatewood

Land

239 acres

Waterways

both sides of Hogans Creek

Neighbors

Sideling Place

Earlier title

Granville to John McMillan 7 Oct 1761|McMillan to George Lumpkin

Citation

ODB 3/398
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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: Gv574, to John McMelian, 6 October 1761, 693 acres, on Hogans Creek, adj Alexander Gowing
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1182
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1682
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1797

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 3/398). Our record above is drawn from it.