Orange County Indexed
John Johnston & Lydia Johnston to William Wallace
8 March 1782 · ODB 2/347
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 8 March 1782
- From
- John Johnston; Lydia Johnston
- To
- William Wallace
- Land
- 100 acres
- Waterways
- on Eno River; on Cedar Branch
- Earlier title
- Granville to Henry Johnston 15 Mar 1756
- Citation
- ODB 2/347
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
- Granville grant: Gv152, to Henry Johnston, 15 March 1756, 269 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Forrester
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-K
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 306
- Proved at: OCPQS 3/247
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 2/347). Our record above is drawn from it.
