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William Walker to Joseph Thompson

18 February 1792 · ODB 4/642

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
18 February 1792
From
William Walker
To
Joseph Thompson
Land
  1. Tract 1: 110 acres
    Waterways: waters of Back Creek
    Neighbors: William Walker
Earlier title
part of Granville to Thomas Lapsley Sr 1761 , by will to David Lapsley , to William Walker 16 Aug 1790
Citation
ODB 4/642
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 published abstract also gives 30 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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: Gv515, to Thomas Lapsley, 10 June 1761, 250 acres, on drains of Back Creek, adj Jacob Riley, Edward Lynch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1862
  • Earlier title: OWB A/220
  • Earlier title: ODB 6/103
  • In the will books: Will of Thomas Lapslie (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 4/642). Our record above is drawn from it.

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