Abraham Nelson to Thomas Nelson

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

21 April 1798

From

Abraham Nelson

To

Thomas Nelson

Land

1. Tract 1: 225 acres, whereon I now live
   Waterways: both sides of Stones Creek of Eno River
   Neighbors: Alexander Borland; James Strayhorn; William Nunn; Christian Peelor; Thomas Nelson

Earlier title

part of 450 acres Granville to Abraham Nelson , other part now occupied by James Strayhorn

Citation

ODB 7/234
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 40004, “Record of Deeds, 1798-1800, Vols. 7, 8” (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: Gv497, to Abraham Nelson, 12 February 1761, 450 acres, on both sides of a fork of Edward Maner Creek, adj Edward Maner
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1925
• Proved at the May 1798 court, 1 June 1798 (OCPQS 5/426)

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 7 (look for ODB 7/234). Our record above is drawn from it.