Orange County Indexed
David Witherspoon to John Umstead
3 December 1796 · ODB 6/93
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 3 December 1796
- From
- David Witherspoon
- To
- John Umstead
- Land
- First tract: 210 acres, Theophilus Thompson Tract
Waterways: waters of Forresters Creek
Neighbors: Nichols - Second tract: 150 acres
Waterways: on Forresters Creek of Little River
Neighbors: Nichols; Robert Smith; William Anderson; Henry Sill; Theophilus Thompson; Isaac Gaddis
- First tract: 210 acres, Theophilus Thompson Tract
- Earlier title
- Sheriff to Witherspoon
- Citation
- ODB 6/93
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 5/289)
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 6/93). Our record above is drawn from it.
