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John Youngblood & Mary Youngblood to Thomas Greave

22 July 1769 · ODB 2/542

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 July 1769
From
John Youngblood; Mary Youngblood
To
Thomas Greave
Land
100 acres
Waterways
on Meadow Creek; on Rocky River
Earlier title
Granville to Peter Youngblood 13 Jun 1762|Peter Youngblood to John Youngblood 4 Mar 1763
Citation
ODB 2/542
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: Gv669, to Peter Youngblood, 30 June 1762, 640 acres, on Meadow Creek of Rocky River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-M
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1180
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1047

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 2/542). Our record above is drawn from it.

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