Orange County Indexed

Peter Hamlin to James Lea

7 February 1793 · ODB 4/674

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 7 February 1793
From: Peter Hamlin
To: James Lea
Land: 277 acres
Waterways: waters of Lynches Creek; on N Hico Creek
Neighbors: Stephen Hamlin; John Breeze
Roads and landmarks: Caswelll County line
Citation: ODB 4/674
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

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 4/674). Our record above is drawn from it.