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Christopher Rhodes & Judith Rhodes to Joseph Barbee

9 December 1755 · ODB 1/100

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 December 1755
From
Christopher Rhodes; Judith Rhodes
To
Joseph Barbee
Land
  1. Tract 1: 220 acres
    Waterways: on Third fork of New Hope Creek
Citation
ODB 1/100
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 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (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: Gv21, to Christopher Rhodes, 26 October 1753, 220 acres, on Third Fork of New Hope Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-L
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 194
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 158
  • Later title: ODB 1/164

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 1 (look for ODB 1/100). Our record above is drawn from it.

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