Edmund Fanning by Sheriff to David Ray

The deed

Kind of deed

Sheriff's sale

Date

7 November 1788

From

Edmund Fanning

To

David Ray

Acting as

Sheriff

Land

145 acres

Waterways

on Eno River

Neighbors

Francis Corbin

Roads and landmarks

Occaneechee Mountain

Earlier title

Granville to William Churton 31 Jan 1761

Citation

ODB 5/357
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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: Gv465, to William Churton, 31 January 1761, 550 acres, on S side of Eno River, adj back side of Occaneechee Mountain, Francis Corbin
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-B
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2013
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1819
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2454

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 5/357). Our record above is drawn from it.