Orange County Indexed

John Thompson to James Blair

28 February 1798 · ODB 7/14

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 28 February 1798
From: John Thompson
To: James Blair
Land: 223 acres
Waterways: on Haw River
Neighbors: John Patton; Eli McDaniel
Citation: ODB 7/14
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, 27 February 1798 (OCPQS 5/357)

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 7/14). Our record above is drawn from it.