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Robert Tinnen & Catherine Tinnen to Richard Cate

1 March 1771 · ODB 3/612

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 March 1771
From
Robert Tinnen; Catherine Tinnen
To
Richard Cate
Land
356 acres
Waterways
on Cane Creek; on Haw River
Roads and landmarks
the Piney Mountain
Earlier title
Granville to Alexander Mebane 13 Nov 1756
Citation
ODB 3/612
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: Gv189, to Alexander Mebane, 13 November 1756, 356 acres, on S side of Cane Creek, on N side of Haw River, about a mile above the Piney Mountain
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 320
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 975

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 3/612). Our record above is drawn from it.

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