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Orange County Indexed

William Jay Sr to William White

6 January 1771 · ODB 3/367

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 January 1771
From
William Jay Sr
To
William White
Land
  1. Tract 1: 150 acres
    Waterways: on Richland Creek
    Neighbors: John Satterfield; William Jay Sr; William Neely
Earlier title
Granville to William Jay Sr 6 May 1756
Citation
ODB 3/367
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: Gv156, to William Jay, 6 May 1756, 395 acres, on N Fork of Flat River, adj Osborn Jefreys, Richland Spring Creek, William Jay
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 229
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 11
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/236

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 3/367). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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