John Dennis & Rachel Dennis to Sarah Lytle

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

12 June 1787

From

John Dennis; Rachel Dennis

To

Sarah Lytle

Land

146 acres

Waterways

on Buck Quarter Creek; on Eno River

Neighbors

Jonathan Sell

Earlier title

Granville to John Dennis Sr 27 Feb 1759

Citation

ODB 4/10
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: Gv283, to John Dennis, 27 February 1759, 507 acres, on branches of Buck Quarter Creek of Eno River, adj Isaac Jackson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 683
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1868
• Later title: ODB 8/287
• Later title: ODB 11/127

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 4 (look for ODB 4/10). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.