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Orange County Indexed

John Robinson & Margaret Robinson to Henry Willis

19 February 1768 · ODB 3/520

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
19 February 1768
From
John Robinson; Margaret Robinson
To
Henry Willis
Land
200 acres
Waterways
both sides of Country Line Creek
Earlier title
Granville to John Roberson
Citation
ODB 3/520
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: Gv533, to John Robinson, 6 September 1761, 641 acres, on Country Line Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-E

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 3/520). Our record above is drawn from it.

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