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Philip Gee & Joshua Eason to Ralph McNair and Company

2 May 1768 · ODB 3/575

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
2 May 1768
From
Philip Gee; Joshua Eason
To
Ralph McNair and Company
Land
200 acres
Waterways
on Collins Creek; on New Hope Creek
Neighbors
John King
Earlier title
Granville to Eason 5 Dec 1762
Citation
ODB 3/575
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: Gv732, to Joshua Eason, 15 December 1762, 641 acres, on Bolin Creek of New Hope Creek, adj John King
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1537
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1494

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 3/575). Our record above is drawn from it.

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