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Orange County Indexed

John Elliman to John Payne

1 December 1768 · ODB 2/496

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 December 1768
From
John Elliman
To
John Payne
Land
640 acres
Waterways
both sides of Moons Creek
Earlier title
Granville to Hugh Dobbins 2 Aug 1760
Citation
ODB 2/496
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: Gv404, to Hugh Dobbins Jr, 2 August 1760, 640 acres, on both sides of Moons Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1495

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 2/496). Our record above is drawn from it.

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