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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Douglass to Joseph Douglass

1 September 1769 · ODB 2/603

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 September 1769
From
Thomas Douglass
To
Joseph Douglass
Land
100 acres
Waterways
on Hico Creek
Roads and landmarks
Hico Creek Road
Earlier title
Granville to Joseph Barnet 7 Nov 1759
Citation
ODB 2/603
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: Gv220, to Joseph Barnett, 7 November 1757, 247 acres, on Hico Road, where on he now lives
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 392
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 395

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 2/603). Our record above is drawn from it.

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