Orange County Indexed
David Strayhorn to William Cooke
1796 · ODB 5/685
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 1796
- From
- David Strayhorn
- To
- William Cooke
- Land
- 96 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Stones Creek; on Eno River
- Neighbors
- William Crabtree; Strayhorn; Darby Conner; James Watson
- Earlier title
- NC to Jacob Richards
- Citation
- ODB 5/685
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. 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
- Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/196)
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 5/685). Our record above is drawn from it.
