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James Newlin to William Waits

19 July 1771 · ODB 3/555

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
19 July 1771
From
James Newlin
To
William Waits
Land
120 acres
Waterways
on Cane Creek; on Haw River
Neighbors
Fish Dam; John Braiser
Earlier title
William Dounin to James Newlin 18 Jul 1771
Citation
ODB 3/555
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: Gv13, to George Williams, 2 May 1753, 640 acres, on S side of Haw River, on N side of Cane Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 77
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/387

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 3/555). Our record above is drawn from it.

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