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Orange County Indexed

John Walker Sr to Samuel Walker

10 September 1772 · ODB 3/499

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 September 1772
From
John Walker Sr
To
Samuel Walker
Land
220 acres
Waterways
both sides of Moons Creek
Earlier title
Granville to Walker
Citation
ODB 3/499
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: Gv459, to John Walker, 30 January 1761, 497 acres, on both sides of Moons Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 819

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 3/499). Our record above is drawn from it.

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