Orange County Indexed
David Ray to Absalom Tatom
13 June 1795 · ODB 5/358
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 13 June 1795
- From
- David Ray
- To
- Absalom Tatom
- Land
- 145 acres
- Waterways
- on Eno River
- Neighbors
- Francis Corbin
- Roads and landmarks
- Occaneechee Mountain
- Earlier title
- Granville to William Churton 31 Jan 1761|Sheriff to David Ray 7 Nov 1788
- Citation
- ODB 5/358
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
- Granville grant: Gv465, to William Churton, 31 January 1761, 550 acres, on S side of Eno River, adj back side of Occaneechee Mountain, Francis Corbin
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-B
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2013
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1819
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2454
- Earlier title: ODB 5/357
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 5/358). Our record above is drawn from it.
