Orange County Indexed
John Hightower to William Bynum
13 October 1789 · ODB 4/406
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 13 October 1789
- From
- John Hightower
- To
- William Bynum
- Land
- 300 acres
- Waterways
- on Phils Creek; on Morgan Creek
- Neighbors
- Austin Hightower; Stephen Lloyd; William Griffin
- Earlier title
- NC to Hightower 21 Sep 1785
- Citation
- ODB 4/406
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 abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.
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 4/406). Our record above is drawn from it.
