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Nathaniel Runnels & Sarah Runnels to John Graves

24 October 1771 · ODB 3/595

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 October 1771
From
Nathaniel Runnels; Sarah Runnels
To
John Graves
Land
355 acres
Waterways
S Fork of Country Line Creek
Neighbors
Joseph Henderson
Earlier title
Granville to Runnels
Citation
ODB 3/595
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: Gv339, to Nathaniel Reynolds, 15 July 1760, 640 acres, on both sides of Country Line Creek, adj N Fork
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-L
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 733

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 3/595). Our record above is drawn from it.

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