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Frederick Safert to Thomas Davis

12 June 1767 · ODB 3/193

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
12 June 1767
From
Frederick Safert
To
Thomas Davis
Land
205 acres
Waterways
both sides of Deep River
Neighbors
William Cox; Peter Youngblood; Harmon Cox
Earlier title
Granville to William Cox 5 Nov 1757
Citation
ODB 3/193
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (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: Gv217, to William Cox, 5 November 1757, 205 acres, on both sides of Deep River, adj Peter Youngblood, Harmon Cox
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1323
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2504
  • Earlier title: GDB 1/311

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 3 (look for ODB 3/193). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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