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Orange County Indexed

Francis Barbee to Christopher Barbee

13 November 1779 · ODB 2/81

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 November 1779
From
Francis Barbee
To
Christopher Barbee
Land
292.5 acres
Waterways
on New Hope Creek
Earlier title
Granville to William Barbee
Citation
ODB 2/81
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

  • Earlier title: Patent Book 11:21
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/152

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 2/81). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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