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John Robison & Mary Robison to David Shelton

23 September 1771 · ODB 3/397

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 September 1771
From
John Robison; Mary Robison
To
David Shelton
Land
280 acres
Waterways
both sides of Country Line Creek
Earlier title
Granville to Hugh Dobbin 8 May 1755
Citation
ODB 3/397
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: Gv90, to Hugh Dobbins Jr, 8 May 1755, 280 acres, on both sides of Country Line Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 319
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 292

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 3/397). Our record above is drawn from it.

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