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John Griffeth & Jennett Griffeth to Peter Walker

29 September 1794 · ODB 6/101

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
29 September 1794
From
John Griffeth; Jennett Griffeth
To
Peter Walker
Land
128 acres
Waterways
both sides of W Fork of Back Creek; on Haw River
Neighbors
Thomas Lapsley
Earlier title
Granville to Zachariah Cadle 25 Oct 1753|Assembly to John Tinnen
Citation
ODB 6/101
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: Gv18, to Zachary Cadle, 25 October 1753, 640 acres, on Back Creek, below the Upper Buffalo Lick
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 94
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 104
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 671
  • Later title: ODB 3/584 (James Carrigan)
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/564
  • Proved at the August 1797 court (OCPQS 5/289)

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 6 (look for ODB 6/101). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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