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Herman Husband & Emy Husband to David Morrow

31 July 1767 · ODB 2/578

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
31 July 1767
From
Herman Husband; Emy Husband
To
David Morrow
Land
440 acres
Waterways
waters of Buffalo Creek; on Haw River
Neighbors
Archibald McElroy
Earlier title
Granville to Robert Brashear 6 Dec 1761
Citation
ODB 2/578
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: Gv609, to Robert Brashear, 6 December 1761, 640 acres, on Reedy Fork of Haw River, adj Barzil Brashear, Buffalo Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1020
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1476

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 2/578). Our record above is drawn from it.

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