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Alexander Montgomery & Martha Montgomery to Mary Montgomery

3 June 1769 · ODB 3/206

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
3 June 1769
From
Alexander Montgomery; Martha Montgomery
To
Mary Montgomery
Land
170 acres
Citation
ODB 3/206
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: Gv169, to John Ferguson, 5 November 1756, 475 acres, on Rattlesnake Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 391
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 369
  • Earlier title: OWB A/81
  • In the will books: Will of Alexander Montgomery (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 3/206). Our record above is drawn from it.

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