Orange County Indexed
James McGowan to Thomas Wilson
15 July 1771 · ODB 3/618
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 15 July 1771
- From
- James McGowan
- To
- Thomas Wilson
- Land
- 360 acres
- Waterways
- waters of Eno River
- Neighbors
- Minnis; Mitchell
- Citation
- ODB 3/618
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: Gv643, to James McGowan, 6 March 1762, 360 acres, on waters of Eno River, adj Minnis, Mitchell
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-D
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1577
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 3/618). Our record above is drawn from it.
