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Orange County Indexed

William Barnet to Thomas Douglass

3 June 1768 · ODB 3/509

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
3 June 1768
From
William Barnet
To
Thomas Douglass
Land
247 acres
Waterways
on Hico Creek
Roads and landmarks
Hico Creek Road
Earlier title
Granville to Joseph Barnet 7 Nov 1757
Citation
ODB 3/509
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: Gv220, to Joseph Barnett, 7 November 1757, 247 acres, on Hico Road, where on he now lives
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 392
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 395
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/363

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 3/509). Our record above is drawn from it.

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