John Dennis & Mary Dennis to David Copeland

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

2 January 1769

From

John Dennis; Mary Dennis

To

David Copeland

Land

1. Tract 1: 287.64 acres
   Waterways: on Buck Quarter Creek
   Neighbors: Jonathan Dennis; Jacob Brinton; Peter

Earlier title

two tracts Granville to Dennis 27 Feb 1757 & 2 Oct 1761

Citation

ODB 2/517
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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: Gv283, to John Dennis, 27 February 1759, 507 acres, on branches of Buck Quarter Creek of Eno River, adj Isaac Jackson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 683
• Granville grant: Gv553, to John Dennis, 2 October 1761, 375 acres, on the Trading Path, adj Isaac Jackson, Christian Shy
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1206

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 2/517). Our record above is drawn from it.