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Orange County Indexed

Granville to James Latta

13 February 1756 · ODB 1/193

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
13 February 1756
From
Granville
To
James Latta
Land
294 acres
Waterways
E Fork of Buck Quarter Creek
Neighbors
Captain Synnott
Citation
ODB 1/193
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: Gv126, to James Latta, 13 February 1756, 294 acres, on E Fork of Buck Quarter Creek, adj Capt Synnott
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 203

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 1/193). Our record above is drawn from it.

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