Orange County Indexed

Benjamin Forrest to Sampson Wood

16 October 1788 · ODB 4/291

The deed

Kind of deed: Land sale
Date: 16 October 1788
From: Benjamin Forrest
To: Sampson Wood
Land: 100 acres
Waterways: on Eno River; mouth of Camp Branch; on Cyder Branch; on Cedar Branch
Neighbors: Benjamin Forrest
Earlier title: John Johnston to Edmund Fanning 16 Feb 1763|Sheriff to William Wiley 27 May 1783
Citation: ODB 4/291
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

Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1776
Earlier title: OCPQS 3/400

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 4/291). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.