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Walter Ashmore to James Ashmore

21 October 1767 · ODB 3/591

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 October 1767
From
Walter Ashmore
To
James Ashmore
Land
290 acres
Waterways
on Terrells Creek
Earlier title
Granville to William
Citation
ODB 3/591
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: Gv155, to William Johnson, 6 May 1756, 540 acres, on N Fork of Terrells Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 201
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 284
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 285
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/186
  • Later title: OCPQS 1/280 (Walter Ashmore)
  • Later title: CDB G/214

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 3/591). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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