Orange County Indexed
John Armstrong on behalf of the Little River Congregation to James Murdah
26 May 1795 · ODB 5/143
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 26 May 1795
- From
- John Armstrong
- To
- James Murdah
- Acting as
- on behalf of the Little River Congregation
- Land
- Tract 1: 240 acres
Waterways: waters of N Fork of Little River
Neighbors: Bowles; Ellimon; McKee
- Tract 1: 240 acres
- Citation
- ODB 5/143
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 40003, “Record of Deeds, 1787-1798, Vols. 5, 6” (State Archives film).
Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 18 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
- Proved at the May 1795 court, 27 May 1795 (OCPQS 5/19)
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 5 (look for ODB 5/143). Our record above is drawn from it.
