John Grist to Osborn Jeffreys

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

23 December 1755

From

John Grist

To

Osborn Jeffreys

Land

225 acres

Waterways

on Flat River

Neighbors

Osborn Jeffreys

Earlier title

Granville to John Grist 28 Apr 1753

Citation

ODB 1/132
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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: Gv11, to John Grice, 28 April 1753, 225 acres, on a branch of Flat River, adj Osborn Jeffreys, head of a branch
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 28
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 177

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 1/132). Our record above is drawn from it.