Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

Robert Barnhill to James Barnhill

25 April 1797 · ODB 5/764

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
25 April 1797
From
Robert Barnhill
To
James Barnhill
Land
  1. Tract 1: 150 acres
    Waterways: on Middle Fork of Quaker Creek
    Neighbors: Jonathan Barnhill
  2. Second tract: measure not given
    Waterways: on Creek
Earlier title
part of grant from North Carolina 13 Mar 1780
Citation
ODB 5/764
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: The published abstract also gives 100 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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

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 5/764). Our record above is drawn from it.

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026