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Orange County Indexed

James Pratt & Mary Pratt to Frederick Nash

27 January 1808 · ODB 13/161

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
27 January 1808
From
James Pratt; Mary Pratt
To
Frederick Nash
Land
195 acres
Neighbors
William Churton
Earlier title
Granville to William Churton 31 Jan 1761
Citation
ODB 13/161
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
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Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40007, “Record of Deeds, 1807-1815, Vols. 13, 14” (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: Gv465, to William Churton, 31 January 1761, 550 acres, on S side of Eno River, adj back side of Occaneechee Mountain, Francis Corbin
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2013
  • Proved at the May 1808 court, 27 May 1808 (OCPQS 7/428)

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 13 (look for ODB 13/161). Our record above is drawn from it.

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