Thomas Couch to John Grant Rencher

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

26 January 1789

From

Thomas Couch

To

John Grant Rencher

Land

1. First tract: 130 acres
   Neighbors: Nunn; Hart
2. Second tract: 150 acres, where Thomas Couch Sr formerly lived
   Waterways: on the Lower Creek
   Neighbors: Christopher Robards
   Roads and landmarks: Cox’s path

Earlier title

William Couch to Thomas Couch

Citation

ODB 4/251
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

• Proved at the November 1789 court (minutes OCPQS 4/248; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/246)

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 4/251). Our record above is drawn from it.