Orange County Indexed
Absalom Lea to Miles Wells
19 January 1798 · ODB 6/452
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 19 January 1798
- From
- Absalom Lea
- To
- Miles Wells
- Land
- 177 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Lynches Creek; on N Hico Creek
- Neighbors
- Elisha Wells
- Roads and landmarks
- Caswell County line
- Citation
- ODB 6/452
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 February 1798 court (OCPQS 5/345)
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 6/452). Our record above is drawn from it.
