Orange County Indexed
William Hayes of Wake to Thomas Stokes
17 April 1795 · ODB 5/261
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Town lot sale
- Date
- 17 April 1795
- From
- William Hayes
- To
- Thomas Stokes
- Land
- 1 acre, in Chapel Hill, bounded by lot 4
- Neighbors
- Gray Barbee; Grand Avenue
- Roads and landmarks
- the Narrow Street; Franklin Street
- Citation
- ODB 5/261
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).
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 August 1795 court, 27 August 1795 (minutes OCPQS 5/43; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 5/44)
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 5/261). Our record above is drawn from it.
