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Orange County Indexed

William Tatum to John Wells

10 November 1767 · ODB 3/521

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 November 1767
From
William Tatum
To
John Wells
Land
30 acres
Waterways
on Little River
Earlier title
Thomas James to William Tatum 7 Jan 1765
Citation
ODB 3/521
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: Gv764, to Thomas James, 29 December 1762, 192 acres, on both sides of N Fork of Little River, adj S Fork of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1561
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2540

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 3/521). Our record above is drawn from it.

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