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Orange County Indexed

John Weems to Samuel Allen

10 December 1790 · ODB 4/422

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 December 1790
From
John Weems
To
Samuel Allen
Land
382 acres
Neighbors
Wilkinson
Earlier title
William Castlebury to John Weems 10 Feb 1767
Citation
ODB 4/422
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: Gv190, to William Kennedy, 7 May 1757, 382 acres, adj Bolin, Wilkinson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 464
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 701
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 700
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2397
  • Later title: ODB 5/103 (Abraham Allen)
  • Later title: ODB 5/481 (Philemon Hodges)
  • 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 4/422). Our record above is drawn from it.

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