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John Hart to Thomas Couch

14 April 1790 · ODB 4/405

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
14 April 1790
From
John Hart
To
Thomas Couch
Land
200 acres
Neighbors
David Rainey
Earlier title
Granville to Michael Waldrop 1 Feb 1761
Citation
ODB 4/405
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: Gv486, to Michael Waldrop, 5 February 1761, 370 acres, on waters of New Hope Creek, adj a stony nap
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2104
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/48
  • 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 4/405). Our record above is drawn from it.

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