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James McMurray to John McMurray

1 May 1771 · ODB 3/592

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 May 1771
From
James McMurray
To
John McMurray
Land
222 acres
Waterways
both sides of Double Creek; on Hico Creek
Neighbors
Samuel Jarrat
Earlier title
Granville to Samuel Jarrat Sr 20 Nov 1756
Citation
ODB 3/592
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: Gv188, to Samuel Sarrat, 13 November 1756, 422 acres, on both sides of S Hico Creek, adj Double Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1593

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 3/592). Our record above is drawn from it.

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