James Nelson estate by executor to John Strayhorn

The deed

Kind of deed

Sale by executor or administrator

Date

27 August 1799

From

James Nelson

To

John Strayhorn

Acting as

executor

Land

45 acres

Waterways

Stones Creek; on a branch of Eno River

Earlier title

NC to James Nelson

Citation

ODB 8/300
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 1800 court, 27 February 1800 (OCPQS 5/664)

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 8 (look for ODB 8/300). Our record above is drawn from it.