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Enos Stinson & Elizabeth Stinson to William Hinshaw

20 February 1769 · ODB 3/506

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 February 1769
From
Enos Stinson; Elizabeth Stinson
To
William Hinshaw
Land
80 acres
Waterways
on a branch of Sandy Creek; on Deep River
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Swift
Citation
ODB 3/506
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: Gv536, to Thomas Swift, 2 October 1761, 260 acres, on waters of Sandy Creek, called Swift's Choise, adj Harmon Husband, the bents of a branch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 865
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1623

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 3/506). Our record above is drawn from it.

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