James Few Jr & Elizabeth Few to John Wood

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

20 July 1787

From

James Few Jr; Elizabeth Few

To

John Wood

Land

1. First tract: 150 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: William Few
2. Second tract: measure not given
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: James Few Jr; William Few

Earlier title

James Denny to William Cox 20 Jul 1761 , to John Woods 2 Feb 1762 , to James Few 3 Nov 1763

Citation

ODB 5/3
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: Gv73, to James Deany, 12 March 1755, 200 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Watson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 150
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 151
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 947
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1253
• Earlier title: ODB 1/84
• Earlier title: ODB 1/86
• Proved at the February 1788 court (minutes OCPQS 4/102; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 3/688)
• Proved at the February 1788 court (minutes OCPQS 4/102; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/100)

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 5/3). Our record above is drawn from it.