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John Tomson Sr to John Bridges

29 June 1769 · ODB 3/210

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
29 June 1769
From
John Tomson Sr
To
John Bridges
Land
200 acres
Waterways
on Mayo Creek; on Back Mountain Creek
Neighbors
Tabor
Roads and landmarks
Back Mountain
Earlier title
Granville to John Tabor 30 Jan 1761
Citation
ODB 3/210
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: Gv457, to John Tabor Jr, 30 January 1761, 605 acres, adj creek, Phillip Pryor
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1945
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1814

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 3/210). Our record above is drawn from it.

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