Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Catherine McAdams & Sarah McAdams to James Allen

10 January 1791 · ODB 4/464

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 January 1791
From
Catherine McAdams; Sarah McAdams
To
James Allen
Land
140 acres
Waterways
waters of Haw Creek
Neighbors
Andrew Murdock esq
Earlier title
NC to Samuel McAdams
Citation
ODB 4/464
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

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 4/464). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026