James Denny to Thomas McVey

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

15 January 1763

From

James Denny

To

Thomas McVey

Land

1. Tract 1: 130 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: James Watson

Earlier title

Granville to James Denny 20 Mar 1755

Citation

ODB 2/47
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: Gv73, to James Deany, 12 March 1755, 200 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Watson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 150
• Earlier title: ODB 1/84
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/131

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 2/47). Our record above is drawn from it.