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Orange County Indexed

Sarah Morgan to John King

September 1755 · ODB 1/34

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
September 1755
From
Sarah Morgan
To
John King
Land
380 acres
Citation
ODB 1/34
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).

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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 37
  • Granville grant: Gv5, to Mark Morgan, 22 April 1753, 380 acres, on head branches of Lick Creek

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 1/34). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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