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Orange County Indexed

John Graves to Robert Kilgore

20 April 1769 · ODB 3/565

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 April 1769
From
John Graves
To
Robert Kilgore
Land
210 acres
Waterways
Fork of N Hico Creek
Citation
ODB 3/565
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: Gv646, to John Graves, 6 March 1762, 210 acres, on head of Reedy Fork of N Hico Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1550
  • Later title: ODB 3/548 (Thomas Kilgore)

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 3/565). Our record above is drawn from it.

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