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Thomas Pratt to Peter Mallet & Thomas Tulloch & John Estes

21 April 1780 · ODB 12/248

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 April 1780
From
Thomas Pratt
To
Peter Mallet; Thomas Tulloch; John Estes
Land
215 acres
Waterways
both sides of Spirit Branch
Neighbors
Patrick McCulloch
Earlier title
Granville to Hugh Woods 20 Dec 1753
Citation
ODB 12/248
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: Gv26, to Hugh Woods, 20 December 1753, 315 acres, on both sides of Spirit Branch, on S side of Eno River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 54
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 498
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/10
  • Later title: ODB 2/73 (Thomas Pratt)
  • Proved at the August 1806 court (OCPQS 7/194)

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 12 (look for ODB 12/248). Our record above is drawn from it.

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