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Orange County Indexed

Benjamin Cadwel [Cadle] to John Douglas

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 671

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
Benjamin Cadwel [Cadle]
To
John Douglas
Land
640 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 671

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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: Gv18, to Zachary Cadle, 25 October 1753, 640 acres, on Back Creek, below the Upper Buffalo Lick
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 94
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 104
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 671

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: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange County (The Deed Book Zero Project) (look for Register of Orange, line 671). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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