Thomas Cate Jr & Elizabeth Cate to James Bell Jr

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

11 September 1771

From

Thomas Cate Jr; Elizabeth Cate

To

James Bell Jr

Land

50 acres

Waterways

a fork of Cane Creek; on Haw River

Earlier title

Granville to Cates 7 Mar 1759

Citation

ODB 3/394
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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: Gv290, to Thomas Cate Jr, 7 March 1759, 456 acres, on fork of Cane Creek, on N side of Haw River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-G
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 654

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 3/394). Our record above is drawn from it.