Orange County Indexed

Samuel Saxon & Elizabeth Saxon to John Jenkins

24 February 1785 · ODB 3/71

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 24 February 1785
From: Samuel Saxon; Elizabeth Saxon
To: John Jenkins
Land: 320 acres
Waterways: on New Hope Creek
Earlier title: Granville to Beasley
Citation: ODB 3/71
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: Gv60, to Henry Beasley, 23 October 1754, 640 acres, on Northeast Creek of New Hope Creek
Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-F
Register of Orange reference: RegLn 308
Register of Orange reference: RegLn 162
Register of Orange reference: RegLn 679
Proved at: OCPQS 3/461

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 3/71). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.