William Few Jr to James Milner

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

7 August 1772

From

William Few Jr

To

James Milner

Land

1. First tract: 460 acres
   Waterways: both sides of Little River
   Neighbors: John Pinkerton; Earl Granville; Robert Abercrombie; orphans of William Ray; orphans of James McAllister
2. Second tract: 320 acres
   Waterways: both sides of Eno River
   Neighbors: Barnaby Cates
   Roads and landmarks: the Catawba Path
3. Third tract: 640 acres, on which Pierce Asbill now lives
   Waterways: on Toms Creek
   Neighbors: Cantrell
4. Fourth tract: lot 79, in Hillsborough

Earlier title

John Dunagan to William Few 9 Aug 1768 Granville to Dunagan 26 Apr 1753 Granville to Dunagan 2 Feb 1761 patent to William Smith 29 Mar 17__ to James Taylor to William Few Sr 15 Jan 1758 to William Few Jr 9 Feb 1772 Lawrence Bankston to Robert Witty to Few

Citation

ODB 3/486
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

• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 344
• Granville grant: Gv472, to John Dunagan, 2 February 1761, 392 acres, on both sides of Little River, adj Michael Synnott, Joseph Ellison, Robert Wilson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-J
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2029
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 539
• Earlier title: ODB 3/547
• Earlier title: ODB 3/485

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 3/486). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.