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Orange County Indexed

Herman Husband to Henry Bray

9 October 1769 · ODB 2/598

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 October 1769
From
Herman Husband
To
Henry Bray
Land
480 acres
Waterways
on Loves Creek
Neighbors
David Smith
Earlier title
Granville to Husband 5 Aug 1758
Citation
ODB 2/598
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: Gv242, to Harmon Husband, 5 August 1758, 640 acres, on the fork of Loves Creek, called Desolate Tract, on waters of Rocky River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 469
  • Earlier title: CDB E/33

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 2/598). Our record above is drawn from it.

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