Thomas Horton & Elizabeth Horton to John Commons

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

12 May 1783

From

Thomas Horton; Elizabeth Horton

To

John Commons

Land

200 acres

Waterways

both sides of Mountain Creek

Neighbors

James Horton; William Johnston; Watson

Earlier title

Granville to James Horton|Prosser Horton to John Cummins

Citation

ODB 4/358
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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).

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: Gv890, to James Horton, 482 acres, on both sides of Mountain Creek, adj John Wade
• Proved at the May 1790 court, 29 May 1790 (minutes OCPQS 4/289; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/287)

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 4/358). Our record above is drawn from it.