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John Scoggin to Elieck Scoggin

24 May 1779 · ODB 2/46

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 May 1779
From
John Scoggin
To
Elieck Scoggin
Land
  1. Tract 1: 100 acres
    Waterways: on Third Fork of New Hope Creek
    Neighbors: Timothy Terrell
Earlier title
Granville to Timothy Terrell
Citation
ODB 2/46
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: Gv525, to Timothy Terrell, 11 June 1761, 700 acres, on Third Fork of New Hope Creek, adj Ezekiel Rhodes, branches, no SCC's - no survey
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-D
  • Later title: OCPQS 3/18 (Thomas Clements)
  • Later title: OCPQS 3/60 (William Scoggin)
  • Later title: OCPQS 3/95 (John Scoggin)
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/127

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 2/46). Our record above is drawn from it.

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