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Orange County Indexed

Martin Hopson to Mark Patterson

17 July 1782 · ODB 2/375

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
17 July 1782
From
Martin Hopson
To
Mark Patterson
Land
240 acres
Waterways
waters of New Hope Creek
Earlier title
NC to J Burnett 3 Sep 1779|Burnett to Martin Hopson
Citation
ODB 2/375
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 936
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/251

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 2/375). Our record above is drawn from it.

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