James Thomson to Joseph Thompson

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

10 October 1779

From

James Thomson

To

Joseph Thompson

Land

1. Tract 1: 350 acres
   Waterways: both sides of McGowans Branch; waters of Eno River

Earlier title

Granville to Andrew Mitchell 22 Feb 1759 Andrew Mitchell & wife Mary Mitchell to James Thompson May 1764

Citation

ODB 2/472
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: Gv256, to Andrew Mitchell, 22 February 1759, 560 acres, on both sides of McGowans Creek of Eno River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 645
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1503
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/323

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 2/472). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.