Orange County Indexed
John Embre to Elias Davis
14 September 1771 · ODB 3/396
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 14 September 1771
- From
- John Embre
- To
- Elias Davis
- Land
- 323 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Eno River
- Neighbors
- Lytle; Jackson
- Earlier title
- Granville to Isaac Jackson 12 Mar 1755|Jackson to John Slater 7 Dec 1755|Slater to Embre 8 Jun 1768
- Citation
- ODB 3/396
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: Gv70, to Isaac Jackson, 12 March 1755, 640 acres, adj his own land
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 362
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 283
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2613
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 3/396). Our record above is drawn from it.
