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John Bridges to Moses Bridges

24 March 1772 · ODB 3/483

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 March 1772
From
John Bridges
To
Moses Bridges
Land
340 acres
Waterways
Fork of Cub Creek; on Tar River
Neighbors
Littleton Mapp
Citation
ODB 3/483
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: Gv580, to James Bridges, 13 October 1761, 340 acres, on Cub Creek of Tar River, adj Absolam Lankson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2119
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1021

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 3/483). Our record above is drawn from it.

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