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Edmund Fanning to Joseph Montfort

14 June 1770 · ODB 34/10

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
14 June 1770
From
Edmund Fanning
To
Joseph Montfort
Land
378 acres
Waterways
on Dunagans Mill Creek; on Little River
Neighbors
Jones; Dunagan
Roads and landmarks
Dunagans Mill
Earlier title
Granville to Edmund Fanning 6 Dec 1761
Citation
ODB 34/10
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 40017, “Record of Deeds, 1841-1856, Vols. 33, 34” (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: Gv630, to Edmund Fanning, 6 December 1761, 378 acres, on Dunagans Mill Creek of Little River, adj Jones, Dunagan
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2046

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 34 (look for ODB 34/10). Our record above is drawn from it.

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