Orange County Indexed
John Rutherford to James Taylor
7 November 1755 · ODB 1/97
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 7 November 1755
- From
- John Rutherford
- To
- James Taylor
- Land
- First tract: 385 acres
Neighbors: James Hart; John Anderson - Second tract: 241 acres
Waterways: fork of Eno River
Neighbors: James Taylor; Thomas Lapsley
- First tract: 385 acres
- Earlier title
- Granville to Governor Gabriel Johnston 25 Mar 1751
- Citation
- ODB 1/97
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
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 157
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 1/97). Our record above is drawn from it.
