Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

William Wiley to John Scarlett

1 April 1772 · ODB 3/411

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 April 1772
From
William Wiley
To
John Scarlett
Share conveyed
half land
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
    Waterways: on Eno River
    Roads and landmarks: Espey's Mill formerly Few's Mill; dwelling house
Earlier title
from James Few Sr & John Woods Jr, William Few to William Wiley registered ODB D2/160
Citation
ODB 3/411
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

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 3/411). Our record above is drawn from it.

Other deeds on this page

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026