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Ephraim Potter Sr to Robert Garrot & Sarry Garrot

14 July 1769 · ODB 2/541

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
14 July 1769
From
Ephraim Potter Sr
To
Robert Garrot; Sarry Garrot
Land
100 acres
Waterways
on Wolf Island Creek; on Dan River; S Fork of Wolf Island Creek
Neighbors
Potter
Citation
ODB 2/541
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: Gv137, to Ephraim Potter, 20 February 1756, 234 acres, on forks of Wolf Island Creek, adj N Fork called Thrashers Fork
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 303

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 2/541). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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