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William Partin to Henson Cother

4 May 1787 · ODB 4/483

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 May 1787
From
William Partin
To
Henson Cother
Land
150 acres
Waterways
on Obeds Creek
Neighbors
Henry Beasley; John Few
Earlier title
Granville to Henry Beasley 13 Jan 1763|Hardy Morgan to William Partin
Citation
ODB 4/483
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: Gv790, to Henry Beasley, 13 January 1763, 700 acres, on forks of Obeds Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1489
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/386
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/477
  • Proved at the November 1791 court (OCPQS 4/389)

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 4/483). Our record above is drawn from it.

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