John Butler to Ralph McNair

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

23 July 1771

From

John Butler

To

Ralph McNair

Land

200 acres

Waterways

on Eno River

Neighbors

Colonel Corbin; Andrew Shanklin; Archibald Borland; Samuel Hill; James Chambers

Roads and landmarks

the Main Road

Earlier title

James Espy to William Few Sr 28 Feb 1763

Citation

ODB 3/456
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: Gv322, to Thomas Wiley, 7 February 1760, 560 acres, on N side of Eno River, adj Trading Path, Col Corbin, William Reed, Thomas Wiley's two tracts
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-K
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2007
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1329
• Earlier title: ODB 3/215

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 3/456). Our record above is drawn from it.