Mark Patterson to Benjamin Yeargan

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

25 February 1788

From

Mark Patterson

To

Benjamin Yeargan

Land

1. Tract 1: 450 acres
   Waterways: on Bolin Creek
   Neighbors: Benjamin Bowling
2. Held back from the sale: 80 acres, which belongs to Hardy Morgan

Earlier title

Granville to Henry Key 9 Jun 1761 to Booth 4 Apr 1764 Booth to Mark Patterson 12 Jul 1784

Citation

ODB 4/37
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: Gv513, to Henry Key, 9 June 1761, 450 acres, on Bolin Creek, adj Benjamin Bolin
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2060
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1483
• Earlier title: OCPQS 3/577
• Proved at the August 1788 court, 27 August 1788 (minutes OCPQS 4/150; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/148)

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 4/37). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.