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John Ellimon to Malcom Baldridge

30 December 1771 · ODB 3/482

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
30 December 1771
From
John Ellimon
To
Malcom Baldridge
Land
120 acres
Waterways
both sides of N Fork of Little River
Earlier title
Granville to James Ray 13 May 1755|Ray to Ellimon 13 Sep 1758
Citation
ODB 3/482
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: Gv98, to James Ray, 13 May 1755, 240 acres, on N Fork of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 705
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/52

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 3/482). Our record above is drawn from it.

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