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Orange County Indexed

Luke Robertson to Rodger Atkinson

26 December 1769 · ODB 3/281

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 December 1769
From
Luke Robertson
To
Rodger Atkinson
Land
200 acres
Neighbors
Rodger Atkinson
Earlier title
Granville to Robertson
Citation
ODB 3/281
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: Gv431, to Luke Roberson, 2 January 1761, 550 acres, on both sides of Hughes Creek, adj Country Line, John Pryor
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 850

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 3/281). Our record above is drawn from it.

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