Orange County Indexed
William Churton to Francis Corbin
9 September 1754 · ODB 2/128
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 9 September 1754
- From
- William Churton
- To
- Francis Corbin
- Land
- Tract 1: 653 acres
Waterways: on Eno River - Held back from the sale: 400 acres, in Orange
- Tract 1: 653 acres
- Earlier title
- Granville to William Churton for Corbin 7 Jun 1754
- Citation
- ODB 2/128
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: Gv36, to William Churton, 7 June 1754, 663 acres, on N side of Eno River
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-J
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 246
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/179
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 2/128). Our record above is drawn from it.
