John Graves Sr to John Graves Jr

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

25 November 1785

From

John Graves Sr

To

John Graves Jr

Land

1. Tract 1: 117 acres
   Waterways: on Stinking Quarter Creek; waters of Great Alamance Creek
   Neighbors: Phillip Sellars; John Graves Sr; Potmaker
2. Held back from the sale: 5 acres, which belongs to John Graves’ son Jacob Graves

Earlier title

Henry Eustace McCulloh to John Noe

Citation

ODB 2/193
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

• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2590
• Later title: ODB 3/443 (John Graves Sr)
• Earlier title: ODB 3/299
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/555

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 2/193). Our record above is drawn from it.