James Watson Sr & Margaret Watson & James Watson Jr to William Riley

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

5 March 1798

From

James Watson Sr; Margaret Watson; James Watson Jr

To

William Riley

Land

40 acres

Waterways

waters of Seven Mile Creek; Watsons Creek

Neighbors

Joseph Thompson; Moore

Earlier title

Granville to James Watson 17 Jun 1754

Citation

ODB 7/419
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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

• Granville grant: Gv127, to James Watson, 13 February 1756, 275 acres, on E side of Eno River, adj late Governor's line
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-C
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 300
• Proved at the February 1799 court, 26 February 1799 (OCPQS 5/514)

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 7/419). Our record above is drawn from it.