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Orange County Indexed

John Howlet to William Cox

22 April 1772 · ODB 3/599

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 April 1772
From
John Howlet
To
William Cox
Land
110 acres
Waterways
on Cane Creek
Earlier title
George Martin to Howlett 19 Jun 1755
Citation
ODB 3/599
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: Gv82, to Benjamin Martin, 13 March 1755, 600 acres, on W side of Haw River, on both sides of Cane Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 117
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 119
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 136
  • Later title: ODB 1/9
  • See also: ODB 1/13
  • See also: ODB 2/214
  • See also: ODB 1/48

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 3/599). Our record above is drawn from it.

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