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Thomas Langley & Esther Langley to Patrick Moore & Joseph Moore

21 January 1771 · ODB 3/527

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 January 1771
From
Thomas Langley; Esther Langley
To
Patrick Moore; Joseph Moore
Land
210 acres
Waterways
waters of S Hico Creek
Earlier title
Granville to Langley __ Nov 1755
Citation
ODB 3/527
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: Gv113, to Thomas Langley, 8 November 1755, 360 acres, on both sides of S Hico Creek, adj low grounds
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 452

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 3/527). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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