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John Woods to Gilbert Strean

10 June 1755 · ODB 2/205

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 June 1755
From
John Woods
To
Gilbert Strean
Land
600 acres
Earlier title
Granville to John Woods 11 Jun 1754
Citation
ODB 2/205
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).

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: Gv43, to John Woods, 11 June 1754, 600 acres, on Stones Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 113
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 114
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 115
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2371
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2413
  • Later title: ODB 1/2
  • Later title: ODB 2/202
  • Later title: ODB 1/4 (Gilbert Strayhorn)
  • Later title: ODB 2/205
  • Later title: ODB 1/5 (Ann Hunter)
  • Later title: ODB 2/206
  • Later title: ODB 3/481 (Gilbert Strayhorn)
  • Later title: ODB 2/148 (William Strayhorn)

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 2 (look for ODB 2/205). Our record above is drawn from it.

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