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Miles Goforth & Mary Goforth to Henry McMullen

28 July 1772 · ODB 3/433

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 July 1772
From
Miles Goforth; Mary Goforth
To
Henry McMullen
Land
  1. Tract 1: 272 acres
    Waterways: both sides of S Hico Creek
    Neighbors: Goforth
Earlier title
Granville to Goforth
Citation
ODB 3/433
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: Gv462, to Miles Goforth, 30 January 1761, 472 acres, on S Hico Creek, adj William Wilson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1545

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 3/433). Our record above is drawn from it.

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