James Davis to William Peasley

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

7 February 1801

From

James Davis

To

William Peasley

Land

1. Tract 1: 200 acres
   Neighbors: Joseph Hamilton; Strudwick; Patton
   Roads and landmarks: an old field

Earlier title

part of 5000 acres purchased by Peter Mallett of Roger Moore deceased in 1777 &

Citation

ODB 9/284
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 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (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 August 1801 court (OCPQS 6/216)

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 9 (look for ODB 9/284). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• In the chronology: The Paisley-Rice log house is built near Mebane