Orange County Indexed
James Williams to John Willis
9 October 1786 · ODB 4/397
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 9 October 1786
- From
- James Williams
- To
- John Willis
- Land
- Tract 1: measure not given
Waterways: on Stinking Quarter Creek
Roads and landmarks: Jacob Anthony's field - Second tract: measure not given
Waterways: on Stinking Quarter Creek - Third tract: measure not given
Waterways: on Stinking Quarter Creek
Neighbors: Christian Long
- Tract 1: measure not given
- Earlier title
- NC to Williams 5 Jan 1784
- Citation
- ODB 4/397
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).
Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 798 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.
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 February 1791 court, 4 March 1791 (minutes OCPQS 4/335; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/333)
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 4/397). Our record above is drawn from it.
