William Ellis & Mary Ellis to John McGee

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

3 January 1755

From

William Ellis; Mary Ellis

To

John McGee

Waterways

on Sandy Creek; a fork of Sandy Creek

Roads and landmarks

the Trading Path

Earlier title

Granville to William Ellis 7 Oct 1754

Citation

ODB 1/1
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 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (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

• Granville grant: Gv56, to William Ellis, 7 October 1754, 300 acres, on forks of Sandy Creek, adj the Trading Path
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 112
• Same deed also recorded at: ODB 2/201
• Later title: RaDB 7/345

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 1 (look for ODB 1/1). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.