Joshua Smith to Cornelius Fogerty

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

6 January 1780

From

Joshua Smith

To

Cornelius Fogerty

Land

385 acres

Waterways

waters of Ellerbe Creek; on Suck Branch

Neighbors

Job Farmer; Robert Hall; William Mebane

Roads and landmarks

Wake County line

Earlier title

NC to Joshua Smith 25 Oct 1782

Citation

ODB 4/309
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

• State grant file: Ofile 1335
• Proved at the May 1788 court, 28 May 1788 (minutes OCPQS 4/129a; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/127)

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 4/309). Our record above is drawn from it.