Abraham Nelson to Thomas Cate

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

Unknown

From

Abraham Nelson

To

Thomas Cate

Land

100 acres

Waterways

on Eno River; mouth of Wates Branch; on Laws Creek

Neighbors

John MacCabe

Citation

ODB 2/231
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

• Proved at: OCPQS 3/222

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 2/231). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• The date could not be read with certainty.
• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.