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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Vanhook to James McCandles

13 April 1768 · ODB 2/551

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 April 1768
From
Samuel Vanhook
To
James McCandles
Land
  1. Tract 1: 200 acres
    Waterways: on middle fork of Little River
    Neighbors: Rutherford
Earlier title
Granville to Nathaniel Walton 15 Jul 1760
Citation
ODB 2/551
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: Gv340, to Nathaniel Walton, 15 July 1760, 402 acres, on Middle Fork of Little River, adj Rutherford
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 713
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1659
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/518

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 2/551). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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