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Jonathan Tinnen to Abraham Brown

18 February 1774 · ODB 2/63

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
18 February 1774
From
Jonathan Tinnen
To
Abraham Brown
Land
220 acres
Waterways
Bushy Fork of Flat River
Neighbors
Thomas Robinson
Earlier title
Granville to Nathaniel Oldridge 6 Feb 1761
Citation
ODB 2/63
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: Gv489, to Nathaniel Aldridge, 6 February 1761, 220 acres, on Brushy Fork of Flat River, adj Thomas Robinson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 83-B
  • 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 2/63). Our record above is drawn from it.

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