Orange County Indexed
John Reading & Ann Reading to James Thompson
1 September 1798 · ODB 8/15
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 1 September 1798
- From
- John Reading; Ann Reading
- To
- James Thompson
- Share conveyed
- undivided third
- Land
- Tract 1: 65 acres
Waterways: on a spring
Neighbors: James Thompson
Roads and landmarks: Mansion House; old plantation; field
- Tract 1: 65 acres
- Earlier title
- formerly property of James Roach deceased, laid out for widow
- Citation
- ODB 8/15
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 1799 court, 31 May 1799 (OCPQS 5/570)
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 8 (look for ODB 8/15). Our record above is drawn from it.
