John Nichols Sheriff to Samuel Park

The deed

Kind of deed

Sheriff's sale

Date

1 April 1788

From

William Merritt

To

Samuel Park

Acting as

John Nichols Sheriff

Land

1. Second tract: 400 acres
   Waterways: on New Hope Creek; on Crooked Creek
   Neighbors: Samuel Parks
   Roads and landmarks: Chatham County line

Earlier title

part of tract formerly sold by Samuel Park to William Merritt

Citation

ODB 4/115
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 400 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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

• Earlier title: ODB 3/97

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 4/115). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.