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John Conner Sr to Ralph McNair

30 March 1769 · ODB 3/459

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
30 March 1769
From
John Conner Sr
To
Ralph McNair
Land
328 acres
Waterways
Stones Creek; on Eno River
Neighbors
James Watson; Churton
Earlier title
Granville to Conner 8 Dec 1762
Citation
ODB 3/459
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: Gv701, to John Conner, 8 December 1762, 328 acres, on Stones Creek of Eno River, adj James Watson, Churton
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-J

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 3/459). Our record above is drawn from it.

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