Orange County Indexed
Edward Turner to Jesse Benton
6 January 1787 · ODB 2/443
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 6 January 1787
- From
- Edward Turner
- To
- Jesse Benton
- Land
- 50 acres
- Waterways
- on Eno River
- Neighbors
- Benton; Edward Turner
- Roads and landmarks
- the Old Trading Road
- Citation
- ODB 2/443
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 the February 1787 court, 3 March 1787 (OCPQS 4/16)
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 2/443). Our record above is drawn from it.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- Jesse Benton, a party to this deed
