North Carolina to Aquilla Compton

The deed

Kind of deed

Land grant

Date

11 March 1799

From

North Carolina

To

Aquilla Compton

Land

70 acres

Waterways

waters of Storm Creek; on N Hico Creek

Neighbors

Absalom Knight; Vincent Roberts

Roads and landmarks

Caswell County line

Citation

ODB 7/452
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

• State grant file: Ofile 2349
• Later title: ODB 15/248 (Thomas Compton)

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 7/452). Our record above is drawn from it.