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Orange County Indexed

David Moore to Abner Nash

3 May 1782 · ODB 2/482

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
3 May 1782
From
David Moore
To
Abner Nash
Land
168 acres
Waterways
on Forresters Creek; on Little River
Neighbors
Gaddis
Earlier title
Granville to David Moore 6 Dec 1761
Citation
ODB 2/482
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: Gv619, to David Moore, 6 December 1761, 168 acres, on Forresters Creek of Little River, adj Gaddis, England
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1605
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/349

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 2/482). Our record above is drawn from it.

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