Henry Beasley & Mary Beasley to John Bohannon

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

9 September 1755

From

Henry Beasley; Mary Beasley

To

John Bohannon

Land

640 acres

Waterways

on Northeast Creek; on New Hope Creek

Citation

ODB 1/106
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: Gv60, to Henry Beasley, 23 October 1754, 640 acres, on Northeast Creek of New Hope Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 308
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 162

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 1/106). Our record above is drawn from it.