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John Madden to Wharton Whatley

4 September 1769 · ODB 3/533

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 September 1769
From
John Madden
To
Wharton Whatley
Land
  1. Tract 1: 95 acres, where John Madden now lives
    Waterways: on Piney Mountain Creek
Earlier title
Granville to James Bowie 22 Feb 1759 Bowie to John Madden 10 May 1759
Citation
ODB 3/533
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: Gv277, to James Bowie, 22 February 1759, 292 acres, on Ellerbee Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-M
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 580

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 3/533). Our record above is drawn from it.

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