Benjamin Chapman & Ann Chapman to John Kelly

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

21 July 1778

From

Benjamin Chapman; Ann Chapman

To

John Kelly

Land

90 acres, 80 perches

Waterways

on Buck Quarter Creek

Earlier title

Granville to John Dennis 27 Feb 1759

Citation

ODB 2/113
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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: Gv283, to John Dennis, 27 February 1759, 507 acres, on branches of Buck Quarter Creek of Eno River, adj Isaac Jackson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 683
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/164

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 2/113). Our record above is drawn from it.