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Orange County Indexed

William Churton to James Sprat [James Pratt]

31 March 1761 · ODB 3/429

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
31 March 1761
From
William Churton
To
James Sprat [James Pratt]
Land
195 acres
Neighbors
William Churton
Earlier title
Granville to Churton 31 Jan 1761
Citation
ODB 3/429
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: Gv465, to William Churton, 31 January 1761, 550 acres, on S side of Eno River, adj back side of Occaneechee Mountain, Francis Corbin
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2013
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1929

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 3/429). Our record above is drawn from it.

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