Closson Press

Author: Candace E. Anderson
Book 5 includes documents dating from 1745 to 1805 included in Deed Book B2 (recorded 1794 to 1798) and Deed Book C2 (recorded 1796 to 1805). Deeds listed in the deed books are filed by the dates they were recorded and not by the dates the deeds were actually made. Therefore, many deed books in these abstracts include land that had been sold years and sometimes decades earlier. For example, the deed books in these abstracts include land records recorded from 1794 to 1805. However, the earliest deed recorded in these books was made in 1745. Early land records recorded in Northampton County deed books that involved property exchanges before 1752 identify the land as being in Bucks County because, of course, Northampton County had not yet been created. When a transaction was made before 1752 but recorded after that year, the record might state that the land was formerly in Bucks County or was late of the county but, since the division, now in Northampton County. Index.