William Wiley & Frances Wiley to Benjamin Few

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

24 August 1789

From

William Wiley; Frances Wiley

To

Benjamin Few

Land

1. First tract: 400 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River; on Dutchmans Creek
   Neighbors: Mr James Hogg
2. Second tract: 200 acres
   Neighbors: Watson; Churton; Wiley; Comer

Earlier title

part of Granville to William Churton 22 Feb 1759 to William Johnston , to Wiley 24 Feb 1783

Citation

ODB 4/220
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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: Gv266, to William Churton, 22 February 1759, 460 acres, on S side of Eno River, on Dutchmans Creek, adj Pattersons Path, Col Corbin
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-D
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1173
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 767
• State grant file: Ofile 1008
• Earlier title: OCPQS 3/37
• Earlier title: OCPQS 3/392
• Earlier title: ODB 2/95
• Earlier title: ODB 2/127
• Later title: ODB 4/222 (William Lytle)
• Later title: ODB 4/549
• Later title: ODB 9/5 (James Hart)

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 4/220). Our record above is drawn from it.