Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

James Nimrod Terrell to Solomon Terrell

20 March 1769 · ODB 3/564

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 March 1769
From
James Nimrod Terrell
To
Solomon Terrell
Land
  1. Tract 1: 358 acres, 88 poles
    Waterways: on head branch of Terrells Creek; waters of Haw River
Earlier title
Granville to Timothy Terrell 6 Sep 1754 and 13 Feb 1756 to James Terrell aka Nimrod Terrell by will 19 Feb 1763
Citation
ODB 3/564
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: Gv53, to Timothy Terrell, 6 September 1754, 400 acres, on head branches of Terrells Creek of Haw River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-D
  • Granville grant: Gv130, to Timothy Terrell, 13 February 1756, 259 acres, on head branches of Terrells Creek of Haw River, adj his own land
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 418
  • Earlier title: OWB A/29
  • Later title: CDB A/119
  • In the will books: Will of Timothy Terrell (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 3/564). Our record above is drawn from it.

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026