John Wood to G[ilbert Strai]n

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

10 June 1755

From

John Wood

To

G[ilbert Strai]n

Land

600 acres

Earlier title

Granville to John Wood

Citation

ODB 1/4
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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: Gv43, to John Woods, 11 June 1754, 600 acres, on Stones Creek
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 113
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 114
• Earlier title: ODB 1/2
• Earlier title: ODB 2/202
• Same deed also recorded at: ODB 2/205

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 1/4). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
• The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.