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Jacob Reed to Thomas Kilgore

21 November 1769 · ODB 3/549

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 November 1769
From
Jacob Reed
To
Thomas Kilgore
Land
  1. Tract 1: 154 acres
    Waterways: waters of Kilgores Branch; waters of N Hico Creek
    Neighbors: John Reed
    Roads and landmarks: pond
Earlier title
Granville to [John] Reed
Citation
ODB 3/549
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: Gv442, to John Reed, 10 January 1761, 302 acres, on both sides of Kilgores Branch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2227

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 3/549). Our record above is drawn from it.

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