Thomas Sharp & Margaret Sharp to James Freeland

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

7 December 1771

From

Thomas Sharp; Margaret Sharp

To

James Freeland

Land

1. Tract 1: 158 acres
   Waterways: both sides of Nelsons Branch

Earlier title

Granville to Thomas Sharp

Citation

ODB 2/135
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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: Gv774, to Thomas Sharp, 4 January 1763, 313 acres, on Nelsons Creek of Haw River, adj David Phillips
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1581
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/173

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 2/135). Our record above is drawn from it.