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Orange County Indexed

Henry Cobb to Matthew Jouett

11 August 1770 · ODB 3/369

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
11 August 1770
From
Henry Cobb
To
Matthew Jouett
Land
238 acres
Waterways
on Country Line Creek
Neighbors
Nathaniel Hart
Earlier title
Granville to Samuel Cobb 6 Nov 1761
Citation
ODB 3/369
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: Gv593, to Samuel Cobb, 6 November 1761, 487 acres, on Country Line Creek, adj Nathaniel Hart
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1540
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1901

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 3/369). Our record above is drawn from it.

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