Orange County Indexed
John Laurance & Betty Laurance to Philip Clapp
28 August 1767 · ODB 2/516
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- 28 August 1767
- From
- John Laurance; Betty Laurance
- To
- Philip Clapp
- Land
- 412 acres
- Waterways
- on Great Alamance Creek
- Earlier title
- Granville to John Lawrence 2 Feb 1761
- Citation
- ODB 2/516
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: Gv470, to John Lawrence, 2 February 1761, 412 acres, on Great Alamance Creek, adj his brother Peter Lawrence, SCC Nicholas Puntrick & Peter Sharmore
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-C
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 2/516). Our record above is drawn from it.
