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Orange County Indexed

John Kelly to John Moore

30 September 1767 · ODB 2/56

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
30 September 1767
From
John Kelly
To
John Moore
Land
487 acres
Waterways
both sides of Horse Creek; on Little River
Citation
ODB 2/56
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: Gv634, to Thomas James, 26 January 1762, 487 acres, on both sides of Horse Creek of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1551
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2291
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/144

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 2/56). Our record above is drawn from it.

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