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Orange County Indexed

Edward Wilborn to Edward Cowen

13 November 1764 · ODB 3/194

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 November 1764
From
Edward Wilborn
To
Edward Cowen
Land
100 acres
Waterways
both sides of Sandy Creek
Neighbors
Edward Wilborn
Earlier title
Granville to Wilborn
Citation
ODB 3/194
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: Gv674, to Edward Wilborn, 30 June 1762, 425 acres, on both sides of Sandy Creek, adj Seymour York
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1200

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 3/194). Our record above is drawn from it.

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