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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Hart & Susannah Hart to Robert Wells

29 November 1769 · ODB 3/294

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
29 November 1769
From
Thomas Hart; Susannah Hart
To
Robert Wells
Land
273 acres
Waterways
N Fork of Country Line Creek
Neighbors
Jones
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Hart
Citation
ODB 3/294
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: Gv311, to Thomas Hart, 17 August 1759, 273 acres, on N Fork of Country Line Creek, adj Jones
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 650
  • Later title: ODB 3/473 (David Hart)

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 3/294). Our record above is drawn from it.

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