Rebecca McClelan to James Ray

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

31 August 1789

From

Rebecca McClelan

To

James Ray

Land

320 acres

Waterways

on Forresters Creek

Citation

ODB 4/239
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

• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1583
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2334
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2619
• Later title: ODB 4/356 (William McClellan)
• Later title: OCPQS 3/121 (Hezekiah McClellan)
• Proved at the November 1789 court (minutes OCPQS 4/249; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/247)

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 4/239). Our record above is drawn from it.