William Courtney to William Lockhart

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

12 December 1796

From

William Courtney

To

William Lockhart

Land

380 acres

Waterways

waters of Eno River

Neighbors

Martin Palmer; Tullock; Thomas Watts; William Courtney

Earlier title

William Lockhart to William Courtney 8 Dec 1779

Citation

ODB 5/671
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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

• State grant file: Ofile 1129
• Earlier title: ODB 2/89
• Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/194)

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 5/671). Our record above is drawn from it.