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Orange County Indexed

Granville to James England

20 February 1756 · ODB 1/196

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
20 February 1756
From
Granville
To
James England
Land
240 acres
Waterways
both sides of Forresters Creek
Neighbors
Robert Davis
Citation
ODB 1/196
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: Gv132, to James England, 20 February 1756, 240 acres, on both sides of Forresters Creek, adj Robert Davis
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 204
  • See also: ODB 1/196

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 1/196). Our record above is drawn from it.

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