James Murdock & Elizabeth Murdock to John Murdock

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

21 November 1778

From

James Murdock; Elizabeth Murdock

To

John Murdock

Land

120 acres

Waterways

on Little River

Neighbors

Thomas Bowles

Earlier title

Granville to James Murdock 19 Feb 1760

Citation

ODB 2/8
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
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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: Gv323, to James Murdaugh, 19 February 1760, 331 acres, on both sides of N Fork of Little River, adj William Aldridge
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-O
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 756
• Proved at: OCPQS 3/112

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 2/8). Our record above is drawn from it.