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Orange County Indexed

John Cate Sr to John Pyron

23 October 1771 · ODB 3/464

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 October 1771
From
John Cate Sr
To
John Pyron
Land
70 acres
Waterways
on Flat River
Neighbors
John Cates Sr
Earlier title
Granville to John Cates Sr
Citation
ODB 3/464
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: Gv95, to John Cate, 9 May 1755, 191 acres, on W Fork of Flat River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2033

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 3/464). Our record above is drawn from it.

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