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Herman Husband to Jacob Hinshaw

19 August 1768 · ODB 2/490

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
19 August 1768
From
Herman Husband
To
Jacob Hinshaw
Land
  1. Tract 1: 272 acres, Triple Union
    Waterways: waters of Sandy Creek
  2. Tract 2: 134 acres, Mill Falls
    Waterways: waters of Sandy Creek
Citation
ODB 2/490
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 406 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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: Gv355, to Harmon Husband, 25 July 1760, 587 acres, on waters of Sandy Creek, called Treble Union Tract, adj Walker, bents of the branch, Harom Husband
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2057
  • Granville grant: Gv367, to Harmon Husband, 29 July 1760, 641 acres, on both sides of Sandy Creek, adj Samuel Walker, Thomas Branson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2055

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 2/490). Our record above is drawn from it.

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