John Wood & Anna Wood to William Wood

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

24 May 1790

From

John Wood; Anna Wood

To

William Wood

Land

1. Tract 1: 150 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River; on branch
   Neighbors: William Few

Earlier title

one Granville to James Denny 1755 , other Granville to William Few

Citation

ODB 4/350
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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

• Granville grant: Gv73, to James Deany, 12 March 1755, 200 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Watson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 150
• Granville grant: Gv447, to William Few, 22 January 1761, 280 acres, on W side of Eno River, adj his own land, Watson, William Cox
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-E
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2025
• Earlier title: ODB 1/84
• Proved at the May 1790 court, 29 May 1790 (minutes OCPQS 4/288; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/286)

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 4/350). Our record above is drawn from it.