Cuthbert Burton to Joseph Sears

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

18 December 1786

From

Cuthbert Burton

To

Joseph Sears

Land

83.5 acres

Waterways

waters of Ellerbe Creek

Neighbors

Elias Turner

Roads and landmarks

Wake County line

Citation

ODB 4/24
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

• Proved at the August 1788 court, 27 August 1788 (minutes OCPQS 4/149; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/147)

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 4/24). Our record above is drawn from it.