Benjamin Martin to George Martin

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

25 May 1755

From

Benjamin Martin

To

George Martin

Land

110 acres

Waterways

both sides of Cane Creek

Earlier title

Granville to Benjamin Martin 13 Mar 1755

Citation

ODB 2/214
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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: Gv82, to Benjamin Martin, 13 March 1755, 600 acres, on W side of Haw River, on both sides of Cane Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 117
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 119
• Earlier title: ODB 1/9
• Same deed also recorded at: ODB 1/13

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 2/214). Our record above is drawn from it.