John Pyron to Mary Scott

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

16 May 1785

From

John Pyron

To

Mary Scott

Land

200 acres

Waterways

both sides of Jordans Creek; Stony Creek

Neighbors

James Tate; John Swanney

Roads and landmarks

Caswell County line

Citation

ODB 3/89
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 abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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

• State grant file: Ofile 828

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 3/89). Our record above is drawn from it.