Peter Writesman & Anne Writesman to Nathaniel Rochester

The deed

Kind of deed

Other

Date

25 August 1772

From

Peter Writesman; Anne Writesman

To

Nathaniel Rochester

Citation

ODB 3/502
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 kind of instrument is our best reading.

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: Gv465, to William Churton, 31 January 1761, 550 acres, on S side of Eno River, adj back side of Occaneechee Mountain, Francis Corbin
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2013
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1819
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2454

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 3/502). Our record above is drawn from it.