Orange County Indexed
William Maxwell to Richard Eskridge
19 March 1771 · ODB 3/434
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 19 March 1771
- From
- William Maxwell
- To
- Richard Eskridge
- Land
- Tract 1: 272 acres
Waterways: both sides of Cobbs Creek
- Tract 1: 272 acres
- Earlier title
- Granville to Maxwell 1761
- Citation
- ODB 3/434
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: Gv594, to William Maxwell, 6 November 1761, 545 acres, on forks of Cobbs Creek of N Hico Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-C
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2019
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 3/434). Our record above is drawn from it.
