Orange County Indexed

Edmund Fanning by Sheriff to William Johnston

22 October 1782 · ODB 2/336

The deed

Kind of deed: Sheriff's sale
Date: 22 October 1782
From: Edmund Fanning
To: William Johnston
Acting as: Sheriff
Land: 100 acres
Waterways: on Eno River; on Buck Quarter Creek
Earlier title: Richard Fincher to Fanning 31 Jan 1767
Citation: ODB 2/336
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

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 2/336). Our record above is drawn from it.