William McCauley to Samuel Gattes

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

9 September 1794

From

William McCauley

To

Samuel Gattes

Share conveyed

half of

Land

1. Tract 1: 275 acres
   Waterways: on Presswoods Creek

Earlier title

almost half of 570 acres by deed 27 Feb 1759 , upper end of tract

Citation

ODB 5/528
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: Gv282, to Gilbert Strayhorn, 27 February 1759, 570 acres, on Presswoods Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-H
• Later title: ODB 2/365 (William McCauley)
• Proved at the August 1796 court, 26 August 1796 (OCPQS 5/135)

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 5/528). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.