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Orange County Indexed

Granville to John Stroud

ODB 3/542

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
Unknown
From
Granville
To
John Stroud
Land
240 acres
Waterways
both sides of New Hope Creek
Citation
ODB 3/542
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: Gv358, to John Stroud Sr, 25 July 1760, 240 acres, on both sides of New Hope Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-I
  • Later title: ODB 3/452 (Thomas Kirkland)

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 3/542). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The date could not be read with certainty.

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