John Cook & Henry Cook to Michael Shofner

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

16 September 1797

From

John Cook; Henry Cook

To

Michael Shofner

Land

1. Tract 1: 167 acres
   Waterways: waters of Stinking Quarter Creek
   Neighbors: Henry Smith

Citation

ODB 7/51
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 May 1798 court, 1 June 1798 (OCPQS 5/422)

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 7/51). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.