Harmon Husband to Jacob Gregg

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

5 August 1768

From

Harmon Husband

To

Jacob Gregg

Land

1. First tract: 640 acres, Thicket
   Waterways: on Sandy Creek
2. Second tract: 640 acres, Bottom
3. Third tract: 640 acres, Cabin
4. Fourth tract: 634 acres
   Waterways: on Sandy Creek
5. Fifth tract: 192 acres, Pocket
   Waterways: on Deep River
6. Sixth tract: 225 acres
   Waterways: on Deep River
7. Seventh tract: 637 acres
   Waterways: on Deep River
8. Eighth tract: 80 acres
   Waterways: on Deep River

Also conveyed

all horses, mares, cows, calves, hogs, sheep, ploughs, guns & household furniture

Earlier title

Granville to Husband 13 Nov 1755 Granville to Husband 14 Nov 1755 Granville to Thomas Branson 13 May 1757 Branson to Husband 8 Mar 1759 Granville to Husband 5 Nov 1757 Granville to Jesse Hollingsworth 15 Jul 1760 to Husband 29 Sep 1764 Granville to Husband 10 Dec 1762 Granville to Joseph Pinson 11 Jun 1761 to Charles Robertson 15 Dec 1762 Charles Robertson to George Roberts Roberts to Husband 13 Sep 1768

Citation

ODB 3/522
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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 2058
• Granville grant: Gv121, to Harmon Husband, 14 November 1755, 640 acres, on both sides of Sandy Creek of Deep River, adj Husband's Cabin Tract or Number 1, Samuel Walker
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-E
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 326
• Granville grant: Gv123, to Harmon Husband, 14 November 1755, 640 acres, on both sides of Sandy Creek of Deep River, adj Samuel Walker, crossing the creek six times
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-C
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 468
• Granville grant: Gv212, to Thomas Branson, 13 May 1757, 634 acres, on Sandy Creek, on N side of the falls at a cleft of rocks, adj Harmon Husband, Ward
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 346
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 471
• Granville grant: Gv215, to Harmon Husband, 5 November 1757, 192 acres, on N side of Deep River, adj Stephen Howard
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 562
• Granville grant: Gv337, to Jesse Hollingsworth, 15 July 1760, 225 acres, on N side of Deep River, adj the Target Rock
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 92-G
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2053
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1786
• Granville grant: Gv718, to Harmon Husband, 10 December 1762, 637 acres, on Deep River, adj Jesse Hollingsworth
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1530
• Granville grant: Gv596, to Joseph Pinson, 20 November 1761, 280 acres, on N side of Deep River, adj Jesse Hollingsworth
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1914
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1044
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2274

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 3/522). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.