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Orange County Indexed

John Cate Sr to John Cate Jr

25 January 1772 · ODB 3/355

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
25 January 1772
From
John Cate Sr
To
John Cate Jr
Land
76 acres
Waterways
on Flat River; mouth of Birds Creek
Neighbors
John Cates Sr
Earlier title
Granville to Joseph Aldridge
Citation
ODB 3/355
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: Gv725, to Joseph Aldridge, 11 December 1762, 455 acres, on Flat River, adj John Cate
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 83-A
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/514

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 3/355). Our record above is drawn from it.

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