Benjamin Rainey & Nancy Rainey to John Harden

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

1 March 1795

From

Benjamin Rainey; Nancy Rainey

To

John Harden

Land

65 acres

Waterways

waters of Little Alamance Creek; on George Holts Spring Branch

Neighbors

William Rainey; George Holt; John Powell

Roads and landmarks

George Holts Spring

Citation

ODB 5/289
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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

• Proved at the August 1795 court, 27 August 1795 (OCPQS 5/42)

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 5/289). Our record above is drawn from it.