Orange County Indexed

Mathew Colter to John McCauley

1796 · ODB 5/676

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 1796
From: Mathew Colter
To: John McCauley
Land: 100 acres
Waterways: waters of Bolin Creek
Neighbors: Yeargan; Hardy Morgan; Alexander Piper; Bowles
Roads and landmarks: Yeargan's Grist Mill
Citation: ODB 5/676
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 year 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

Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/197)

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 5/676). Our record above is drawn from it.