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Francis Moreland & Nancy Moreland to John Lane

3 February 1795 · ODB 5/404

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
3 February 1795
From
Francis Moreland; Nancy Moreland
To
John Lane
Land
  1. Tract 1: 101 acres
    Waterways: on North Third Fork of New Hope Creek
    Neighbors: Daniel Green
    Roads and landmarks: the low grounds of a branch
Earlier title
part of Granville to Timothy Terrell 17 Jun 1761
Citation
ODB 5/404
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: Gv525, to Timothy Terrell, 11 June 1761, 700 acres, on Third Fork of New Hope Creek, adj Ezekiel Rhodes, branches, no SCC's - no survey
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-D
  • Later title: ODB 5/128 (Francis Moreland)
  • Later title: ODB 10/245 (Jeremiah Jackson)

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 5/404). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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