William Bracken to James Bracken

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

12 May 1790

From

William Bracken

To

James Bracken

Land

216 acres

Waterways

both sides of Stony Creek; on Haw River

Earlier title

Granville to William Mills 8 Jan 1760|Mills to Jonathan Robeson 8 Mar 1767|Robeson to Jonathan Bracken 13 Aug 1768

Citation

ODB 4/669
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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: Gv435, to William Mills, 8 January 1761, 216 acres, on both sides of Stony Creek, adj John West
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-E
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1552
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2691

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 4/669). Our record above is drawn from it.