Laurance Rambo to John Pryor

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

5 September 1755

From

Laurance Rambo

To

John Pryor

Land

100 acres

Waterways

both sides of Castle Creek; on Hico Creek

Neighbors

John Pryor

Citation

ODB 1/33
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: Gv754, to Robert McFarland, 22 December 1762, 439 acres, on waters of Castle Creek of Hico Creek, adj McFarland, Joseph Barnett, Paul Harrelson
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-C
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1541

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 1/33). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.