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Joseph Stout to Daniel Foust

20 December 1796 · ODB 5/707

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 December 1796
From
Joseph Stout
To
Daniel Foust
Land
  1. Tract 1: 130 acres
    Waterways: on Cane Creek
Earlier title
part of Granville to John Jones 11 Jun 1754 , to John Stanfield 241 acres , to Jonathan Lindley
Citation
ODB 5/707
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

  • Granville grant: Gv39, to John Jones, 11 June 1754, 682 acres, on a branch of Cane Creek, adj John Wright
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 239
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 97
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/283
  • 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 5/707). Our record above is drawn from it.

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