Orange County Indexed
William Watters by Sheriff to Absalom Tatom
15 July 1797 · ODB 6/35
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Sheriff's sale
- Date
- 15 July 1797
- From
- William Watters
- To
- Absalom Tatom
- Acting as
- Sheriff
- Land
- 185 acres
- Roads and landmarks
- the Occaneechee Mountain
- Earlier title
- Amelia Alves to Watters 8 Jun 1793
- Citation
- ODB 6/35
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
- Proved at the August 1797 court (OCPQS 5/295)
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 6/35). Our record above is drawn from it.
