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Hugh Laughlin to Thomas Lindley

10 August 1755 · ODB 1/35

The deed

Kind of deed
Agreement
Date
10 August 1755
From
Hugh Laughlin
To
Thomas Lindley
Land
  1. Tract 1: 3.75 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
  2. Seat for the mill: 3 acres
    Waterways: on Cane Creek
Citation
ODB 1/35
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: Gv296, to William McFerson, 6 August 1759, 227 acres, on S side of Cane Creek & S side of Haw River, adj Hugh Laughlin
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 759
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 127
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/37

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 1/35). Our record above is drawn from it.

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