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William Nunn & Elizabeth Nunn to Thomas Burk

2 October 1772 · ODB 5/1

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
2 October 1772
From
William Nunn; Elizabeth Nunn
To
Thomas Burk
Land
  1. First tract: 405 acres
    Waterways: fork of Great Creek
    Neighbors: John Woods
  2. Second tract: 179 acres
    Waterways: on Schoolhouse Branch
    Neighbors: Robert Lytle; John Woods
Earlier title
Granville to Nunn 15 Mar 1756
Citation
ODB 5/1
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 40003, “Record of Deeds, 1787-1798, Vols. 5, 6” (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: Gv144, to William Nunn, 15 March 1756, 402 acres, on fork of Great Creek, adj John Woods
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 510
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1432

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 5 (look for ODB 5/1). Our record above is drawn from it.

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