Michael Murrah to Richard Woods

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

November 1760

From

Michael Murrah

To

Richard Woods

Land

490 acres

Citation

Register of Orange, line 776

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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: Gv82, to Benjamin Martin, 13 March 1755, 600 acres, on W side of Haw River, on both sides of Cane Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-A
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 117
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 421
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 776
• Proved at: OCPQS 1/447
• Earlier title: ODB 1/9
• Same deed also recorded at: ODB 1/12
• Same deed also recorded at: ODB 1/11
• Later title: ODB 1/156 (James Nethery)
• Later title: CDB B/182

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: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange County (The Deed Book Zero Project) (look for Register of Orange, line 776). Our record above is drawn from it.