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John Kelly by Sheriff to George Doherty

5 March 1785 · ODB 3/82

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
5 March 1785
From
John Kelly
To
George Doherty
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
214 acres
Citation
ODB 3/82
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: Gv281, to Daniel Kain, 27 February 1759, 428 acres, on both sides of Forresters Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 607
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 609
  • Later title: OWB A/164
  • Later title: ODB 2/124 (John Kelly)
  • Later title: ODB 4/663 (Jonathan Nichols)
  • In the will books: Will of David Pinkerton (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 3/82). Our record above is drawn from it.

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