Orange County Indexed
Granville to John Tomlinson
5 May 1756 · ODB 1/254
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land grant
- Date
- 5 May 1756
- From
- Granville
- To
- John Tomlinson
- Land
- 135 acres
- Waterways
- on Deep River
- Roads and landmarks
- the Cape Fear Road
- Citation
- ODB 1/254
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: Gv154, to John Tomlinson, 5 May 1756, 135 acres, on S side of Deep River, about two miles below the Cape Fear Road
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-J
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 226
- See also: ODB 1/254
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 1/254). Our record above is drawn from it.
