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Orange County Indexed

James Crow & Grace Crow to Henry Wasson

31 March 1756 · ODB 1/209

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
31 March 1756
From
James Crow; Grace Crow
To
Henry Wasson
Land
640 acres
Waterways
on Haw River
Earlier title
Granville to William Martin
Citation
ODB 1/209
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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 56
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 208
  • Earlier title: Patent Book 6:189
  • Later title: CDB A/287

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 1/209). Our record above is drawn from it.

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