Granville to James Rayley [Riley]

The deed

Kind of deed

Land grant

Date

20 February 1756

From

Granville

To

James Rayley [Riley]

Land

422 acres

Waterways

both sides of Seven Mile Creek

Neighbors

Henry Lemmons

Citation

ODB 1/245
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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: Gv142, to James Riley, 20 February 1756, 422 acres, on both sides of Seven Mile Creek, adj Henry Lemmon
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-G
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 224

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 1/245). Our record above is drawn from it.