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Isaac Gattis & Hannah Gattis to Andrew Burke

10 March 1789 · ODB 4/169

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 March 1789
From
Isaac Gattis; Hannah Gattis
To
Andrew Burke
Land
  1. First tract: 247 acres
    Waterways: head of Forresters Creek
    Roads and landmarks: road to Orange Court House
  2. Second tract: 50 acres
    Waterways: on Forresters Creek
    Neighbors: Alexander Carnes
Earlier title
Granville to James Anderson 15 Aug 1759 , Anderson to Isaac Gaddis 30 May 1760
Citation
ODB 4/169
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: Gv309, to James Anderson, 15 August 1759, 247 acres, on head branches of Forresters Creek, on both sides of Hico Road to Orange Courthouse
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 83-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 635

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 4/169). Our record above is drawn from it.

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