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Charles Johnston & David Craige to John Hart

24 May 1779 · ODB 2/48

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
24 May 1779
From
Charles Johnston; David Craige
To
John Hart
Land
200 acres
Neighbors
David Rainy
Earlier title
Granville to Michael Waldrop 1 Feb 1761
Citation
ODB 2/48
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: Gv486, to Michael Waldrop, 5 February 1761, 370 acres, on waters of New Hope Creek, adj a stony nap
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2104
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/133

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 2/48). Our record above is drawn from it.

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