Orange County Indexed
Samuel Nelson to Nathaniel Wells
28 July 1786 · ODB 2/441
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 28 July 1786
- From
- Samuel Nelson
- To
- Nathaniel Wells
- Land
- Tract 1: 90 acres
Waterways: both sides of Cane Creek
- Tract 1: 90 acres
- Earlier title
- Granville to Simon Dixon 15 Mar 1756 to William Lee 30 Aug 1759 to William Nelson 11 May 1771 to Samuel Nelson 9 Jul 1781
- Citation
- ODB 2/441
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: Gv149, to Simon Dixon, 15 March 1756, 498 acres, on both sides of Cane Creek, on S side of Haw River, adj Henry Maynard, John Allen, McCulloh
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-C
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 312
- Earlier title: OCPQS 1/398
- Earlier title: ODB 3/420
- Earlier title: OCPQS 3/400
- Later title: CDB L/224
- Proved at the February 1787 court, 3 March 1787 (OCPQS 4/17)
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 2/441). Our record above is drawn from it.
