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Orange County Indexed

William McCauley to William Andrews

24 March 1788 · ODB 4/340

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 March 1788
From
William McCauley
To
William Andrews
Land
185 acres
Waterways
on Morgan Creek
Neighbors
Matthew McCauley
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Lloyd 11 May 1757
Citation
ODB 4/340
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: Gv199, to Thomas Lloyd, 11 May 1757, 370 acres, on Morgan Creek, adj the Piney Mountain
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-K
  • Proved at the May 1790 court, 29 May 1790 (minutes OCPQS 4/288; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/286)

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 4/340). Our record above is drawn from it.

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