Orange County Indexed

James Lea to Thomas Donaldson

18 October 1771 · ODB 3/465

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 18 October 1771
From: James Lea
To: Thomas Donaldson
Land: 100 acres
Waterways: both sides of Richland Creek; on S Hico Creek
Neighbors: Lawrence V Hook
Earlier title: Vanhook to James Lea 18 Nov 1760
Citation: ODB 3/465
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 3/465). Our record above is drawn from it.