Orange County Indexed
David Thornbury to James Wire
25 November 1797 · ODB 6/443
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 25 November 1797
- From
- David Thornbury
- To
- James Wire
- Land
- Tract 1: 77 acres
Waterways: waters of Stinking Quarter Creek
Neighbors: David Thornbury
Roads and landmarks: Chatham County line
- Tract 1: 77 acres
- Citation
- ODB 6/443
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 77 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
- Proved at the February 1798 court (OCPQS 5/346)
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 6/443). Our record above is drawn from it.
