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Michael Synnott to John Agar

2 May 1752 · ODB 1/91

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
2 May 1752
From
Michael Synnott
To
John Agar
Land
  1. Plantation on which Synnott now lives: measure not given
Also conveyed
30 head of black cattle, 50 hogs, 6 horses, 1 cart, 1 wagon, with all plantation utensils & household furniture, all the corn now growing or that may hereafter grow on said plantation
Earlier title
Granville to Michael Synnott 2 May 1752
Citation
ODB 1/91
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: The kind of instrument is our best reading.

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

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 1/91). Our record above is drawn from it.

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