William Newman to Jesse Benton

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

12 March 1790

From

William Newman

To

Jesse Benton

Land

108 acres

Waterways

on Eno River; on Fullers Branch

Neighbors

Captain Watson

Roads and landmarks

the Old Trading Path; Old Trading Road

Citation

ODB 4/345
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 May 1790 court, 29 May 1790 (minutes OCPQS 4/287; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/285)

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 4/345). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• Jesse Benton, a party to this deed