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Stephen Carroll & Elenor Carroll to Samuel Piper

17 November 1791 · ODB 4/512

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
17 November 1791
From
Stephen Carroll; Elenor Carroll
To
Samuel Piper
Land
140 acres
Waterways
on Eno River
Earlier title
Granville to John Scarlett
Citation
ODB 4/512
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

  • Granville grant: Gv538, to John Scarlet, 2 October 1761, 700 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Couch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-L
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2040
  • Proved at the November 1791 court (OCPQS 4/387)

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 4/512). Our record above is drawn from it.

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