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Benjamin Martin to William Johnson

26 May 1755 · ODB 1/12

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 May 1755
From
Benjamin Martin
To
William Johnson
Waterways
on Haw River; mouth of Cane Creek
Neighbors
George Martin
Earlier title
Granville to Benjamin Martin 13 Nov 1754
Citation
ODB 1/12
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: Gv82, to Benjamin Martin, 13 March 1755, 600 acres, on W side of Haw River, on both sides of Cane Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 117
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 118
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 421
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 776
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/9
  • Same deed also recorded at: ODB 2/212
  • Later title: ODB 1/156 (James Nethery)
  • Later title: CDB B/182

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 1/12). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.
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