Benjamin Smith to UNC

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

18 December 1789

From

Benjamin Smith

To

UNC

Land

1. First tract: 3000 acres
   Waterways: on Forked Deer River
   Neighbors: Smith
2. Second tract: 4000 acres
   Neighbors: Griffith Rutherford; Smith
3. Third tract: 5000 acres
   Neighbors: Griffith Rutherford; Smith
4. Fourth tract: 3000 acres
   Waterways: on River
   Neighbors: John Carter; Benjamin McCullock; Edward Sharp; Benjamin Sharp; William Hawkins
5. Fifth tract: 5000 acres
   Waterways: on River; mouth of a small branch
   Neighbors: Martin Armstrong; Griffith Rutherford; Smith
   Roads and landmarks: first bluff

Citation

ODB 4/320
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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 4 (look for ODB 4/320). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.