Orange County Indexed
William Allen to John Cole
14 November 1795 · ODB 5/503
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 14 November 1795
- From
- William Allen
- To
- John Cole
- Land
- First tract: 100 acres
Waterways: waters of Eno River
Neighbors: Stephen Carroll; Cuthbert Burton - Second tract: 30 acres
Waterways: on Pea Creek - Third tract: 40 acres
Waterways: on Pea Creek; Long Pond Branch
Roads and landmarks: small pond
- First tract: 100 acres
- Earlier title
- formerly property of Howell Hunt
- Citation
- ODB 5/503
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 abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.
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 1796 court, 26 August 1796 (OCPQS 5/134)
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 5/503). Our record above is drawn from it.
