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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Standfield to James Neal

21 October 1788 · ODB 4/191

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 October 1788
From
Thomas Standfield
To
James Neal
Land
203 acres
Waterways
on Haw River; on a branch of Cane Creek; on Hunting Branch
Neighbors
John Wright; John Jones
Earlier title
Granville to John Stanfield 7 Jun 1754
Citation
ODB 4/191
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: Gv45, to John Standfield, 12 June 1754, 203 acres, on a branch of Cane Creek, adj John Wright, John Jones
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 478
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/347
  • Later title: ODB 19/258 (Enoch McPherson)

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 4/191). Our record above is drawn from it.

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