Benjamin Rhodes to John Shepherd

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

11 November 1797

From

Benjamin Rhodes

To

John Shepherd

Land

92.5 acres

Waterways

waters of Ellerbe Creek; on Eno River

Neighbors

Shepherd; Lewis

Citation

ODB 7/433
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

• Proved at the February 1799 court (OCPQS 5/510)

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 7/433). Our record above is drawn from it.