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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Nelson to William Edwards

10 March 1802 · ODB 10/233

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 March 1802
From
Thomas Nelson
To
William Edwards
Land
202 acres
Waterways
Stones Creek; on Eno River
Neighbors
Alexander Boland; James Strayhorn; William Nunn; Christian Peelor
Earlier title
Granville to Abraham Nelson
Citation
ODB 10/233
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 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (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: Gv497, to Abraham Nelson, 12 February 1761, 450 acres, on both sides of a fork of Edward Maner Creek, adj Edward Maner
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1925
  • Later title: ODB 7/234 (Thomas Nelson)

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 10 (look for ODB 10/233). Our record above is drawn from it.

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