Matthew McCauley to John Strother

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

6 December 1796

From

Matthew McCauley

To

John Strother

Land

1. First tract: 185 acres
   Waterways: head of Morgan Creek
   Neighbors: William McCauley; Matthew McCauley
2. (2): 100 acres
   Waterways: head of Morgan Creek

Earlier title

from William McCauley to Matthew McCauley 19 Jan 1775

Citation

ODB 9/297
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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 9/297). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• Matthew McCauley, a party to this deed