Gilbert Strayhorn to James Strayhorn

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

22 September 1798

From

Gilbert Strayhorn

To

James Strayhorn

Land

225 acres

Waterways

waters of Eno River; both sides of Stones Creek

Neighbors

Abraham Nelson

Roads and landmarks

Elder Spring

Citation

ODB 7/382
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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
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1256
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2270
• Proved at the November 1798 court (OCPQS 5/503)

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 7/382). Our record above is drawn from it.