James Woody & Rebecca Woody to Jonathan Lindley

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

21 February 1792

From

James Woody; Rebecca Woody

To

Jonathan Lindley

Land

1. Tract 1: 167 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River; on Marys Creek
   Neighbors: James Woody Sr; James Woody Jr; John Carter

Earlier title

Granville to John Woody 15 Aug 1759 , 167 acres to John Woody by heirship, to James Woody 21 Jan 1791

Citation

ODB 4/541
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 published abstract also gives 167 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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: Gv307, to John Woody, 15 August 1759, 374 acres, on S side of Haw River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-K
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 655
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2256
• Proved at the February 1792 court, 3 March 1792 (OCPQS 4/411)

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 4/541). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.