Orange County Indexed
Henry McClure to Benjamin Shearman
27 August 1795 · ODB 5/721
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 27 August 1795
- From
- Henry McClure
- To
- Benjamin Shearman
- Land
- Tract 1: 100 acres
Waterways: on Haw River
Neighbors: John Cohees
- Tract 1: 100 acres
- Earlier title
- part 500 acres granted to Henry McClure
- Citation
- ODB 5/721
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
- Proved at the February 1797 court (OCPQS 5/192)
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 5/721). Our record above is drawn from it.
