Orange County Indexed
John Nichols to James Ray
10 December 1797 · ODB 6/454
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 10 December 1797
- From
- John Nichols
- To
- James Ray
- Land
- First tract: 240 acres
Waterways: both sides of Forresters Creek
Neighbors: Robert Davis - Second tract: 196 acres
Waterways: waters of Little River
Neighbors: Davis
- First tract: 240 acres
- Earlier title
- General Nash by executor to John Taylor
- Citation
- ODB 6/454
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
- Earlier title: ODB 4/203
- Earlier title: ODB 3/31
- Proved at the February 1798 court (OCPQS 5/366)
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 6/454). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
