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Joseph Glasson & Sarah Glasson to James Monro

24 February 1779 · ODB 2/37

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 February 1779
From
Joseph Glasson; Sarah Glasson
To
James Monro
Land
177 acres
Waterways
on branch of Eno River
Neighbors
John Gray
Earlier title
Granville to John Hunter 8 May 1762
Citation
ODB 2/37
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: Gv92, to John Hunter, 8 May 1755, 177 acres, on a small branch of Eno River that runs through Capt Gray's land
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 149
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1830
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2516
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/55
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/125

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 2/37). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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