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Orange County Indexed

Gilbert Strean to Ann Hunter

10 June 1755 · ODB 2/206

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 June 1755
From
Gilbert Strean
To
Ann Hunter
Land
300 acres
Earlier title
John Woods to Strain 10 Jun 1755
Citation
ODB 2/206
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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 115
  • 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
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/4
  • Same deed also recorded at: ODB 1/5
  • Later title: ODB 1/2
  • Later title: ODB 2/202

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 2/206). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.
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