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Orange County Indexed

Granville to Mark Morgan

26 April 1751 · ODB 1/71

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
26 April 1751
From
Granville
To
Mark Morgan
Land
490 acres
Waterways
on branch of New Hope Creek
Citation
ODB 1/71
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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 146
  • See also: Patent Book 11:24

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 1/71). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The date falls outside the years this book usually covers; it may be misprinted.
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