Orange County Indexed
Samuel Gattis to John Gattis Sr
1796 · ODB 5/490
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 1796
- From
- Samuel Gattis
- To
- John Gattis Sr
- Land
- 200 acres
- Waterways
- on Presswoods Creek
- Neighbors
- Nathaniel King
- Earlier title
- Granville to Gilbert Strayhorn 27 Feb 1759
- Citation
- ODB 5/490
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: Only the year is given.
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: Gv282, to Gilbert Strayhorn, 27 February 1759, 570 acres, on Presswoods Creek
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-H
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1782
- Proved at the August 1796 court, 26 August 1796 (OCPQS 5/129)
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 5/490). Our record above is drawn from it.
