William Burns to John Craig

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

2 January 1800

From

William Burns

To

John Craig

Land

154 acres

Waterways

on New Hope Creek; mouth of Great Branch

Neighbors

Andrew Burns; John Craig; William McCauley

Citation

ODB 8/308
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 February 1800 court, 25 February 1800 (OCPQS 5/654)

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 8/308). Our record above is drawn from it.