John Gwinn & Sarah Gwinn to William Harper & Elisabeth Harper

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

Unknown

From

John Gwinn; Sarah Gwinn

To

William Harper; Elisabeth Harper

Land

1. Tract 1: 100 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River
   Neighbors: John Gwinn; Mordecai Gwinn; Samuel Parks; William Harper

Earlier title

John Pitman to Mordicai Gwinn

Citation

ODB 4/302
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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: Gv145, to John Pitman, 15 March 1756, 550 acres, on both sides of Haw River, adj Little Creek, island, Travis Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1219
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 271

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 4/302). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• The date could not be read with certainty.
• The date was supplied by the compiler.