Robert Wells & Esther Wells to Thomas Hart

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

26 July 1770

From

Robert Wells; Esther Wells

To

Thomas Hart

Land

229 acres

Waterways

N Fork of Haw River

Earlier title

Thomas Hart to Robert Wells

Citation

ODB 3/295
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

• Granville grant: Gv334, to John Boyd Jr, 15 July 1760, 229 acres, on N side of N Fork of Haw River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1913
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2005
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1342

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 3/295). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• Thomas Hart, a party to this deed