Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

William McCauley Sheriff to Alexander Kirkpatrick

November 1797 · ODB 7/351

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
November 1797
From
William McCauley
To
Alexander Kirkpatrick
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
150 acres
Waterways
on Otter Creek
Neighbors
Jacob Bason; William Mebane; James Hutcheson
Roads and landmarks
the North Spring
Citation
ODB 7/351
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).

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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

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 7/351). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026