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Robert Corley & wife Sarah to James Ray

20 April 1770 · ODB 3/309

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 April 1770
From
Robert Corley; Sarah
To
James Ray
Land
140 acres
Waterways
Robertsons Creek
Citation
ODB 3/309
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: Gv699, to Robert Corley, 8 December 1762, 700 acres, on Robersons Creek of Haw River, adj Petty, Charles Clanton
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1554

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 3/309). Our record above is drawn from it.

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