Orange County Indexed
James Christmas to John Nichols
24 August 1789 · ODB 4/226
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 24 August 1789
- From
- James Christmas
- To
- John Nichols
- Land
- Tract 1: 200 acres
Waterways: waters of New Hope Creek; on branch
Neighbors: William Rhodes; Mark Patterson; Joseph White; Thomas Horn
- Tract 1: 200 acres
- Earlier title
- property of Archie Grisham purchased at Sheriff's sale
- Citation
- ODB 4/226
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. The published abstract also gives 200 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.
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
- Earlier title: ODB 4/230
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 4/226). Our record above is drawn from it.
