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Orange County Indexed

John Dunnagan to William Few Jr

9 August 1768 · ODB 3/547

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 August 1768
From
John Dunnagan
To
William Few Jr
Land
  1. Tract 1: 460 acres
    Waterways: both sides of Little River
    Neighbors: Joseph Dunagan; Pinkerton; Ray; James Clark
Citation
ODB 3/547
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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 344
  • Granville grant: Gv472, to John Dunagan, 2 February 1761, 392 acres, on both sides of Little River, adj Michael Synnott, Joseph Ellison, Robert Wilson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2029

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 3/547). Our record above is drawn from it.

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