Granville to William Jay

The deed

Kind of deed

Land grant

Date

6 May 1756

From

Granville

To

William Jay

Land

395 acres

Waterways

N Fork of Flat River; on Richland Spring Creek

Neighbors

Osborn Jeffreys; William Jay

Roads and landmarks

Richland Spring

Citation

ODB 1/236
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: Gv156, to William Jay, 6 May 1756, 395 acres, on N Fork of Flat River, adj Osborn Jefreys, Richland Spring Creek, William Jay
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 221
• See also: ODB 1/236

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 1/236). Our record above is drawn from it.