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Isaac Jackson to Thomas Holden

24 May 1796 · ODB 5/697

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 May 1796
From
Isaac Jackson
To
Thomas Holden
Land
  1. Tract 1: 80 acres
    Waterways: on Buck Quarter Creek of Eno River
    Neighbors: Thomas Jackson
  2. Second tract: measure not given
    Waterways: waters of Buck Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: Andrew Brooks; William Jackson; Jonathan Nichols
Earlier title
Henry Sell to Jonathan Sell
Citation
ODB 5/697
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: Gv283, to John Dennis, 27 February 1759, 507 acres, on branches of Buck Quarter Creek of Eno River, adj Isaac Jackson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 683
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 672
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1598
  • See also: ODB 5/111
  • Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/195)

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 5/697). Our record above is drawn from it.

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