William Ray & Mary Ray to John Cain

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

30 October 1787

From

William Ray; Mary Ray

To

John Cain

Land

1. Tract 1: 200 acres
   Waterways: on Little River; mouth of a branch
2. Tract 2: 200 acres
   Neighbors: Hogg & Wilson; Davis; Bryant
3. Held back from the sale: measure not given
   Waterways: on branch
   Neighbors: James Bryant; William White; Robert Wilson
   Roads and landmarks: Great Road to the mill

Earlier title

NC to George Clower 3 Sep 1779 ODB K/198 , George Clower to James Hogg, Hogg to Embree

Citation

ODB 4/153
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

• State grant file: Ofile 1109
• Earlier title: ODB 2/96
• Earlier title: OCPQS 3/401
• Proved at the February 1788 court (minutes OCPQS 4/102; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 3/688)
• Proved at the February 1788 court (minutes OCPQS 4/102; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/100)

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 4/153). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.