Andrew Huffman & Sophia Huffman to John Elmore

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

20 August 1787

From

Andrew Huffman; Sophia Huffman

To

John Elmore

Land

200 acres

Waterways

on Boyds Creek; on Haw River

Neighbors

Samuel Means; Huffman; Robert Turner

Citation

ODB 3/43
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: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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

• State grant file: Ofile 1189
• Later title: ODB 4/514 (William Hodge)
• Later title: ODB 7/364 (Joseph Hodge)
• Later title: ODB 9/224 (Henry Younger)
• Proved at the August 1787 court (OCPQS 4/70)

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 3/43). Our record above is drawn from it.