George Riggs Jr to John Riggs

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

4 April 1785

From

George Riggs Jr

To

John Riggs

Land

200 acres

Waterways

on Little River

Neighbors

George Riggs; James Riggs

Earlier title

Granville to John Burney 7 Feb 1756

Citation

ODB 10/31
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Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (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: Gv134, to John Burney, 20 February 1756, 575 acres, on both sides of Little River
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-J
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 383
• Earlier title: OWB A/270
• Proved at the November 1801 court (OCPQS 6/251)
• In the will books: Will of William Riggs (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 10 (look for ODB 10/31). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.