Anderson Comer & Nanie Comer to James Wilson

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

3 October 1788

From

Anderson Comer; Nanie Comer

To

James Wilson

Land

1. First tract: 236 acres
   Waterways: both sides of Third Fork of New Hope Creek
2. Second tract: 15 acres
   Waterways: on branch
3. Third tract: measure not given
   Neighbors: Benjamin Rhodes

Earlier title

half of Granville to Hezekiah Rhodes

Citation

ODB 4/224
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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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 24 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

• Granville grant: Gv595, to Hezekiah Rhodes, 20 November 1761, 472 acres, on Third Fork of New Hope Creek, adj Joseph Barbee
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1923

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 4/224). Our record above is drawn from it.