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Orange County Indexed

John Strowd Sr to Thomas Kirkland

4 December 1770 · ODB 3/452

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 December 1770
From
John Strowd Sr
To
Thomas Kirkland
Land
140 acres
Waterways
both sides of New Hope Creek; mouth of Great Branch
Earlier title
Granville to John Stroud 25 Jul 1760
Citation
ODB 3/452
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: Gv358, to John Stroud Sr, 25 July 1760, 240 acres, on both sides of New Hope Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-I

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 3/452). Our record above is drawn from it.

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