Orange County Indexed
Ralph McNair to Thomas Estes
2 August 1777 · ODB 6/228
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 2 August 1777
- From
- Ralph McNair
- To
- Thomas Estes
- Land
- Tract 1: 280 acres
Waterways: waters of New Hope Creek
Neighbors: George Reeves; Thomas Estes
- Tract 1: 280 acres
- Earlier title
- remainder of 480 acres from Granville to John Caragan , purchased by MacNair in 2 parcels from William Gibson & James Scarlett , MacNair already sold 200 acres to George Reeves
- Citation
- ODB 6/228
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: Gv834, to John Carragan, 304 acres, on S side of Eno River, on Spirit Branch, adj Wiley, Jackson, Hugh Woods
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2014
- Proved at the November 1797 court (OCPQS 5/331)
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 6/228). Our record above is drawn from it.
