John Campbell Sr to Charles Stephens

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

6 October 1770

From

John Campbell Sr

To

Charles Stephens

Land

1. Tract 1: 163.5 acres
   Waterways: both sides of Reedy Fork of Hico Creek

Citation

ODB 3/451
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 327 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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: Gv153, to Daniel Stilwell, 28 April 1756, 327 acres, on both side of Reedy Fork of Hico Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-G
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 677

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 3/451). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.