Josiah Watts by John Nichols Sheriff to David Ray

The deed

Kind of deed

Sheriff's sale

Date

19 November 1789

From

Josiah Watts

To

David Ray

Acting as

Sheriff

Land

lot 12, in Hillsborough, bounded by lots 15, 9

Roads and landmarks

King Street; Margaret Lane

Citation

ODB 4/244
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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.

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

• 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 4/244). Our record above is drawn from it.