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John Falconer & Elizabeth Falconer to Thomas Blyth

13 October 1768 · ODB 3/298

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 October 1768
From
John Falconer; Elizabeth Falconer
To
Thomas Blyth
Land
  1. Tract 1: 122 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Roads and landmarks: gut; branch; island
Earlier title
Granville to Benjamin Clemmons 1758
Citation
ODB 3/298
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: Gv246, to Benjamin Clements, 2 November 1758, 486 acres, on N side of Haw River, adj small island
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 499
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1781
  • Later title: CDB A/51

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 3/298). Our record above is drawn from it.

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