James Watson Jr to William McQulston

The deed

Kind of deed

Town lot sale

Date

26 August 1798

From

James Watson Jr

To

William McQulston

Land

lots 2, 44, in Hillsborough

Neighbors

William Courtney; Walter Alves

Roads and landmarks

the Public Brick Spring; Courthouse

Citation

ODB 7/246
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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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 1798 court, 31 August 1798 (OCPQS 5/468)

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 7/246). Our record above is drawn from it.