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Jonathan Lindley to Joseph Stout

13 January 1786 · ODB 4/283

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 January 1786
From
Jonathan Lindley
To
Joseph Stout
Land
  1. Tract 1: 120.5 acres
    Waterways: on Cane Creek
Earlier title
Granville to John Jones 11 Jun 1754 to John Stanfield 13 Aug 1754 to Jonathan Lindley 27 Nov 1785
Citation
ODB 4/283
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: Gv39, to John Jones, 11 June 1754, 682 acres, on a branch of Cane Creek, adj John Wright
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 239
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 97

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 4/283). Our record above is drawn from it.

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