Orange County Indexed
John Umstead to Joseph Moore
24 May 1798 · ODB 7/96
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 24 May 1798
- From
- John Umstead
- To
- Joseph Moore
- Land
- First tract: 240 acres
Waterways: head of Forresters Creek
Roads and landmarks: Hico Road to Hillsborough - Second tract: 50 acres
Waterways: on Forresters Creek - Third tract: 110 acres
Waterways: waters of Eno River
Neighbors: Robert Smith; Gaddis
- First tract: 240 acres
- Earlier title
- two tracts Isaac Gaddis & wife Hannah to Andrew Burke
- Citation
- ODB 7/96
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 1058
- Earlier title: ODB 6/184
- Proved at the May 1798 court, 1 June 1798 (OCPQS 5/418)
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 7/96). Our record above is drawn from it.
