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Orange County Indexed

Garland Terry to Francis Shackleford

18 February 1769 · ODB 2/546

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
18 February 1769
From
Garland Terry
To
Francis Shackleford
Land
170 acres
Neighbors
John Mayo; John Rainey
Citation
ODB 2/546
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: Gv503, to John Rainey, 7 June 1761, 290 acres, on N side of Dan River, on Cane Creek, adj the Country Line, Mayo
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1224
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1519

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 2/546). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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