Orange County Indexed
William Penn to Richard Taylor
10 October 1796 · ODB 5/637
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 10 October 1796
- From
- William Penn
- To
- Richard Taylor
- Land
- First tract: 284 acres
Waterways: waters of Little River
Neighbors: Allison; Armstrong; Clark; McBroom - Second tract: 400 acres
Neighbors: John Ray; Isaac Lewis; John Armstrong
- First tract: 284 acres
- Earlier title
- NC to John Penn father of William Penn
- Citation
- ODB 5/637
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 November 1796 court (OCPQS 5/157)
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 5/637). Our record above is drawn from it.
