William Lee to William Nelson

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

11 May 1771

From

William Lee

To

William Nelson

Land

1. Tract 1: 195 acres
   Waterways: on Cane Creek
   Roads and landmarks: line called McCulloh's

Earlier title

Granville to Simon Dixon 15 Mar 1756

Citation

ODB 3/420
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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: Gv149, to Simon Dixon, 15 March 1756, 498 acres, on both sides of Cane Creek, on S side of Haw River, adj Henry Maynard, John Allen, McCulloh
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-C
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 312
• Later title: OCPQS 1/398 (William Lee)
• Later title: OCPQS 3/400 (Samuel Nelson)
• Later title: ODB 2/441 (Nathaniel Wells)
• Later title: CDB L/224 (Thomas Dixon)

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 3/420). Our record above is drawn from it.