Granville to Benjamin Martin

The deed

Kind of deed

Land grant

Date

13 March 1755

From

Granville

To

Benjamin Martin

Waterways

on Haw River

Citation

ODB 1/9
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
• See also: ODB 1/9
• See also: ODB 2/209

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 1/9). Our record above is drawn from it.