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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Stout to Daniel Freeman

4 February 1788 · ODB 4/168

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 February 1788
From
Samuel Stout
To
Daniel Freeman
Land
  1. Tract 1: 112.5 acres
    Waterways: on Cane Creek
    Neighbors: Simon Dixon; John Allen
Earlier title
Granville to Simon Dixon 15 Mar 1756
Citation
ODB 4/168
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: Gv149, to Simon Dixon, 15 March 1756, 498 acres, on both sides of Cane Creek, on S side of Haw River, adj Henry Maynard, John Allen, McCulloh
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 312

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 4 (look for ODB 4/168). Our record above is drawn from it.

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