William Creige & Margaret Creige to John Reany

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

8 June 1756

From

William Creige; Margaret Creige

To

John Reany

Land

280 acres

Earlier title

Granville to William Craig 13 Mar 1755

Citation

ODB 1/153
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: Gv81, to William Craig, 13 March 1755, 280 acres, on both sides of Richland Fork of New Hope Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-F
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 148
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 188
• Earlier title: ODB 1/78

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 1/153). Our record above is drawn from it.