Hardress Hawkins to John Hawkins

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

19 May 1800

From

Hardress Hawkins

To

John Hawkins

Land

1. Tract 1: 275 acres, Greeson's Old Place
   Neighbors: Daniel May; Jacob Greeson; Frederick Keck
2. Tract 2: 250 acres, Rames old field
   Neighbors: Philip Clapp; Elisha Bennett
3. Tract 3: 50 acres
   Neighbors: Jacob Greeson; Tobias Clapp; George Foust
4. Tract 4: 641 acres
   Neighbors: Robert Fields; Jeremiah Fields

Earlier title

John Hawkins agrees to take 640 acres tract where my father formerly lived, adj John Lynn, George Fogleman, Guilford County line

Citation

ODB 8/360
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 1800 court, 29 May 1800 (OCPQS 6/31)

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 8/360). Our record above is drawn from it.