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Ralph McNair to Joseph Glasson

11 August 1770 · ODB 3/540

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
11 August 1770
From
Ralph McNair
To
Joseph Glasson
Land
244 acres
Waterways
on Spirit Branch; on Eno River
Neighbors
William Wylie; Hugh Woods
Earlier title
William Jackson to MacNair 19 Nov 1767
Citation
ODB 3/540
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: Gv834, to John Carragan, 304 acres, on S side of Eno River, on Spirit Branch, adj Wiley, Jackson, Hugh Woods
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2014
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 907
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2576

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 3/540). Our record above is drawn from it.

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