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Orange County Indexed

Ralph McNair to George Reeves

17 March 1772 · ODB 3/376

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
17 March 1772
From
Ralph McNair
To
George Reeves
Land
200 acres
Waterways
waters of New Hope Creek
Earlier title
Granville to William Jackson 2 Aug 1760
Citation
ODB 3/376
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: Gv409, to William Jackson, 2 August 1760, 480 acres, on head branches of New Hope Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1952

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 3/376). Our record above is drawn from it.

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