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Robert Wilson & Anne Wilson to Thomas Wilson

24 November 1788 · ODB 11/43

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 November 1788
From
Robert Wilson; Anne Wilson
To
Thomas Wilson
Land
240 acres
Waterways
on Buffalo Creek; on Little River
Earlier title
Granville to Reuben Young 6 Mar 1762
Citation
ODB 11/43
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 40006, “Record of Deeds, 1803-1807, Vols. 11, 12” (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: Gv641, to Reuben Young, 6 March 1762, 240 acres, on Buffalo Creek of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-L
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1228

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 11 (look for ODB 11/43). Our record above is drawn from it.

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