William Nash to John Estes

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

29 August 1795

From

William Nash

To

John Estes

Land

1. First tract: 40 acres
   Waterways: on Eno River
   Neighbors: Hooper; Nash
   Roads and landmarks: Shy's Ford
2. Second tract: 100 acres, McCulloh's Place
   Waterways: both sides of Spirit Branch
3. Third tract: 215 acres
   Neighbors: Woods
4. Third tract: 231 acres
   Neighbors: Hugh Wood
5. Fourth tract: 100 acres

Enslaved people named

Mars; Fanny; Anderson; John; Amy; Milley; Tom; Mlly; Elsey; Creasy; Fortune; Joe; Nancy; Tenah; Jenney; Billy

Earlier title

three last tracts contain 536 acres, conveyed to Nash by Sheriff 28 May 1795 registered ODB Q/162

Citation

ODB 5/334
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 published abstract also gives 536 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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

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 5/334). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 29 August 1795, naming Mars, Fanny, Anderson, John and 12 others