William Johnston & Mary Johnston to James Nethery

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

13 April 1756

From

William Johnston; Mary Johnston

To

James Nethery

Land

490 acres

Waterways

on Haw River; on Cane Creek

Neighbors

George Martin

Earlier title

Martha Martin to Johnston 6 May 1755

Citation

ODB 1/156
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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 190
• See also: ODB 1/9
• See also: ODB 2/212
• 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 1/156). Our record above is drawn from it.