Benjamin Blake to John Scott

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

5 February 1787

From

Benjamin Blake

To

John Scott

Land

240 acres

Waterways

both sides of New Hope Creek; on Great Branch

Earlier title

James Trice to Benjamin Blake

Citation

ODB 4/731
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

• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1608
• Earlier title: ODB 4/81
• Later title: ODB 4/344 (Robert Campbell)
• Later title: ODB 5/301 (Charles Collier)

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 4/731). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.