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Orange County Indexed

George Lea to Samuel McMurray

1 January 1769 · ODB 3/624

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 January 1769
From
George Lea
To
Samuel McMurray
Land
223 acres
Waterways
on Double Creek; on S Hico Creek
Citation
ODB 3/624
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: Gv610, to Peter Beeman, 6 December 1761, 223 acres, on Double Creeks of S Hico Creek, adj Josiah Carter
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2236
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2314
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2391

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 3/624). Our record above is drawn from it.

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