Orange County Indexed
John Ray to Henry Cook
26 December 1795 · ODB 5/686
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 26 December 1795
- From
- John Ray
- To
- Henry Cook
- Land
- 124 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Stinking Quarter Creek
- Neighbors
- Coonce; Hilton
- Earlier title
- NC to Jesse McComb 22 Mar 1793
- Citation
- ODB 5/686
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
- State grant file: Ofile 2011
- Earlier title: ODB 4/686
- 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 5/686). Our record above is drawn from it.
