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Orange County Indexed

James Hogg to Theophilus Thompson

20 March 1785 · ODB 3/87

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 March 1785
From
James Hogg
To
Theophilus Thompson
Land
258 acres
Neighbors
D Cloud
Earlier title
Granville to William Reed 9 Jun 1761|Coleman to Cumming Warwick
Citation
ODB 3/87
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: Gv512, to William Reed Jr, 9 June 1761, 488 acres, on Nunns Mill Creek, adj William Combs, Reed, Thomas Wiley, Nunn
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1247
  • Earlier title: OCPQS 3/42

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 3/87). Our record above is drawn from it.

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