James Denny to William Cox

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

10 September 1755

From

James Denny

To

William Cox

Land

70 acres

Waterways

on Eno River

Earlier title

Granville to James Denny 12 Mar 1755

Citation

ODB 1/86
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: Gv73, to James Deany, 12 March 1755, 200 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Watson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 150
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 151
• Earlier title: ODB 1/84

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 1/86). Our record above is drawn from it.