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Orange County Indexed

Edmund Fanning to William Austin

15 October 1770 · ODB 3/350

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
15 October 1770
From
Edmund Fanning
To
William Austin
Land
170 acres
Waterways
on branch of Eno River
Neighbors
John Gray
Earlier title
Charles Morgan to Edmund Fanning
Citation
ODB 3/350
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: Gv92, to John Hunter, 8 May 1755, 177 acres, on a small branch of Eno River that runs through Capt Gray's land
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 140
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1830
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2516
  • Later title: ODB 1/55

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 3/350). Our record above is drawn from it.

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