John Hopkins to Thomas Strain Jr

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

20 January 1779

From

John Hopkins

To

Thomas Strain Jr

Land

1. Tract 1: 148 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River

Earlier title

Granville to William Phillips to William Hopkins deceased

Citation

ODB 2/112
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

• Granville grant: Gv543, to William Phillips, 2 October 1761, 700 acres, on Haw River, adj McCulloh
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-L
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2101
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/157
• Later title: ODB 5/332 (Eli Newland)

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 2/112). Our record above is drawn from it.