Orange County Indexed

Jehu Pyles to Allen Edwards

September 1796 · ODB 5/674

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: September 1796
From: Jehu Pyles
To: Allen Edwards
Land: 84 acres
Waterways: on Cane Creek
Neighbors: Thomas Lindley
Citation: ODB 5/674
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 month or court term 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

Earlier title: OWB A/39
Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/194)
In the will books: Will of Hugh Laughlin (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 5/674). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.