William Harper & Elizabeth Harper to James Cook

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

October 1790

From

William Harper; Elizabeth Harper

To

James Cook

Land

1. Tract 1: 100 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River; mouth of Gwinns Creek

Earlier title

one John Pitman to Mordecia Gwinn & other NC to John Gwinn 6 Jan 1784

Citation

ODB 5/712
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: Only the month or court term is given.

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

• Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/189)

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 5/712). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.