Orange County Indexed

Alston Jones to Edward Jones

13 August 1796 · ODB 7/1

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 13 August 1796
From: Alston Jones
To: Edward Jones
Land: 89.5 acres
Waterways: on Morgan Creek; on Banks Branch
Neighbors: William Merritt
Roads and landmarks: William Merritt's mill
Citation: ODB 7/1
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 40004, “Record of Deeds, 1798-1800, Vols. 7, 8” (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 5/367)

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 7 (look for ODB 7/1). Our record above is drawn from it.