James Hogg to John Embrie

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

27 December 1786

From

James Hogg

To

John Embrie

Land

1. First tract: 355 acres
   Waterways: on Little River
   Neighbors: Robert Wilson; Michael Synnott; Alexander Mebane
   Roads and landmarks: mill
2. Second tract: 100 acres
   Waterways: on branch
3. Third tract: 300 acres
   Neighbors: Hogg & Wilson; Davis; Bryant
4. Held back from the sale: measure not given
   Waterways: on branch; on spring
   Neighbors: William Walsh; Robert Wilson
   Roads and landmarks: James Bryant's house; Big Road to the mill

Earlier title

Granville to John Murdock , to John Embree , to John MacNair

Citation

ODB 3/157
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (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

• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 825
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1961
• State grant file: Ofile 1012
• State grant file: Ofile 1109
• Earlier title: ODB 2/132
• Earlier title: ODB 2/96

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 3 (look for ODB 3/157). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• James Hogg, a party to this deed