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to Nathaniel Powell & Comfort Powell to Solomon Morgan

1769 · ODB 3/201

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1769
From
Nathaniel Powell; Comfort Powell
To
Solomon Morgan
Land
  1. Tract 1: 100 acres
    Waterways: on Indian Creek of Deep River
    Neighbors: Stephen Howard
Earlier title
Granville to Nathaniel Powell
Citation
ODB 3/201
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).

Reading notes: Only the year is given.

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: Gv421, to Nathaniel Powell, 5 August 1760, 700 acres, on N side of Deep River, on both sides of Indian Creek, adj Stephen Howard
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-D

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 3/201). Our record above is drawn from it.

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