John Wood to Nathaniel Rochester

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

9 September 1778

From

John Wood

To

Nathaniel Rochester

Land

215 acres

Waterways

both sides of Spirit Branch; on Eno River

Neighbors

Bryan Crosbie

Earlier title

Granville to Hugh Woods 20 Dec 1753|Hugh Woods to John Woods 25 Aug 1778

Citation

ODB 2/10
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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: Gv26, to Hugh Woods, 20 December 1753, 315 acres, on both sides of Spirit Branch, on S side of Eno River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 498
• Later title: ODB 2/73
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/112

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 2 (look for ODB 2/10). Our record above is drawn from it.