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Aaron Vanhook Sr estate by executor to Samuel Vanhook

16 January 1770 · ODB 3/220

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale by executor or administrator
Date
16 January 1770
From
Aaron Vanhook Sr estate
To
Samuel Vanhook
Acting as
executor
Land
  1. Tract 1: 100 acres
    Waterways: both sides of N Fork of Flat River
    Neighbors: David Vanhook
Earlier title
Granville to Hosea Tapley 1 Nov 1751 , Tapley to Aaron Vanhook 9 Jun 1756
Citation
ODB 3/220
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

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 3/220). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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