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Joseph George & Ellener George to Ambrose George

10 February 1770 · ODB 3/209

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 February 1770
From
Joseph George; Ellener George
To
Ambrose George
Land
150 acres
Citation
ODB 3/209
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: Gv567, to John King, 2 October 1761, 640 acres, on Robersons Creek of Haw River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2085
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2223

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 3/209). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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