William Courtney to George Johnston

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

21 November 1796

From

William Courtney

To

George Johnston

Land

1. First tract: measure not given
   Waterways: both sides of New Hope Creek
   Neighbors: Allen
2. Second tract: 185 acres
   Waterways: both sides of New Hope Creek
   Neighbors: Alexander Mebane; William Rhodes
   Roads and landmarks: mill
3. Third tract: 152 acres
   Waterways: waters of New Hope Creek

Earlier title

NC to Mark Patterson & Joseph Cobb 18 May 1789, Sheriff to Courtney

Citation

ODB 6/156
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 290 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

• State grant file: Ofile 935
• Earlier title: ODB 2/89
• Earlier title: ODB 6/337
• Proved at the August 1797 court (OCPQS 5/280)

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 6 (look for ODB 6/156). Our record above is drawn from it.