John Estes by Sheriff to William Nash

The deed

Kind of deed

Sheriff's sale

Date

28 May 1795

From

John Estes

To

William Nash

Acting as

Sheriff

Land

1. First tract: 215 acres
   Waterways: both sides of Spirit Branch of Eno River
   Neighbors: Patrick McCulloch
2. Second tract: 100 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: Rochester
3. Third tract: 231 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River

Earlier title

part of Granville to Hugh Woods

Citation

ODB 5/162
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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: Gv26, to Hugh Woods, 20 December 1753, 315 acres, on both sides of Spirit Branch, on S side of Eno River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 54
• Proved at the May 1795 court, 27 May 1795 (OCPQS 5/20)

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 5/162). Our record above is drawn from it.