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Joseph Maddock to James Thompson & Samuel Chambers & Francis Wilkinson & Daniel Cloud

15 July 1768 · ODB 2/565

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
15 July 1768
From
Joseph Maddock
To
James Thompson; Samuel Chambers; Francis Wilkinson; Daniel Cloud
Land
5 acres
Waterways
on Eno River
Neighbors
John Carson
Roads and landmarks
the Great Road
Earlier title
Granville to William Comb 12 Nov 1756
Citation
ODB 2/565
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: Gv180, to William Combs, 12 November 1756, 348 acres, on both sides of Little Creek, adj Robert Little, William Nunn
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 349
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 540

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 2/565). Our record above is drawn from it.

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