Charles Johnston & Martha Johnston to Ebenezer Macnair

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

28 August 1770

From

Charles Johnston; Martha Johnston

To

Ebenezer Macnair

Land

1. Tract 1: measure not given
   Waterways: on New Hope Creek
2. Tract 2: measure not given
   Waterways: on New Hope Creek

Earlier title

William Cox to Charles Johnston 7 Jul 1764

Citation

ODB 2/155
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 570 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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: Gv380, to William Cox, 1 August 1760, 350 acres, on New Hope Creek, adj Blackwood, Patterson's Path
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-D
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2027
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1607
• Granville grant: Gv163, to Richard Caswell, 11 May 1756, 640 acres, on both sides the fork of New Hope Creek & Old Field Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-D
• Later title: ODB 1/155 (William Blackwood)
• Later title: OWB A/129
• Earlier title: ODB 2/229
• In the will books: Will of William Blackwood (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 2/155). Our record above is drawn from it.