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Orange County Indexed

Nathaniel King to John Gattis

18 October 1799 · ODB 8/289

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
18 October 1799
From
Nathaniel King
To
John Gattis
Land
175 acres
Waterways
on Presswoods Creek
Neighbors
Hogan
Earlier title
Granville to Strayhorn 27 Feb 1759
Citation
ODB 8/289
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

  • Granville grant: Gv282, to Gilbert Strayhorn, 27 February 1759, 570 acres, on Presswoods Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-H
  • Proved at the November 1799 court, 28 November 1799 (OCPQS 5/627)

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 8/289). Our record above is drawn from it.

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