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Thomas Hogan to John Strain

January 1794 · ODB 16/73

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
January 1794
From
Thomas Hogan
To
John Strain
Land
198 acres
Waterways
on Broomstraw Creek
Neighbors
Matthew McCauley; John Hogan; Strain
Earlier title
Granville to Joseph Barbee|Barbee to Thomas Lloyd
Citation
ODB 16/73
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 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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: Gv780, to Joseph Barbee, 10 January 1763, 700 acres, on waters of Bolin Creek of New Hope Creek, adj John Stroud Jr, Lloyd, John King
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 83-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1548
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1811
  • Later title: ODB 2/189
  • Proved at the August 1817 court (OCPQS 9/372)

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 16 (look for ODB 16/73). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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