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Orange County Indexed

Barny Grimes to William Walker

15 November 1784 · ODB 3/90

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
15 November 1784
From
Barny Grimes
To
William Walker
Land
100 acres
Waterways
S Fork of Little River
Neighbors
Dunagan
Earlier title
Granville to Thomas Perkins 6 Dec 1761
Citation
ODB 3/90
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: Gv622, to Thomas Perkins, 6 December 1761, 360 acres, on S Fork of Little River, adj Robert Jones
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1189
  • Later title: ODB 5/35

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 3/90). Our record above is drawn from it.

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