Archibald D Murphey to Jeremiah Holt

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

15 February 1816

From

Archibald D Murphey

To

Jeremiah Holt

Land

1. First tract: 1600 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River; on branch; on Rocky Branch; on widow Phillips’ Spring Branch
   Neighbors: William Rainey; Tapley; William Simmons; Elizabeth Murray; John Gant; Gasper Long
   Roads and landmarks: pond; fence; Law tract; Great Road leading to Trolinger's Bridge across Haw River
2. Second tract: 86 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River; on branch
   Roads and landmarks: Stephen White’s old stable; pond; old field; Great Road
3. Third tract: 206 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River
4. Fourth tract: 50.5 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River

Earlier title

purchased of William Rainey & Benjamin Rainey

Citation

ODB 15/216
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 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 2012.5 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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

• Proved at the February 1816 court, 1 March 1816 (OCPQS 9/157)

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 15 (look for ODB 15/216). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• Archibald D. Murphey, a party to this deed