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Orange County Indexed

Hermon Husband to Roger Murphy

6 February 1765 · ODB 34/13

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 February 1765
From
Hermon Husband
To
Roger Murphy
Land
  1. Tract 1: 200 acres
    Waterways: on a branch of Sandy Creek
    Roads and landmarks: original NE corner
  2. Tract 2: 640 acres, the Levell
Citation
ODB 34/13
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: Gv241, to Harmon Husband, 5 August 1758, 644 acres, on head branches of Sandy Creek, adj a small branch of Rocky River, Husband
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2059

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 34/13). Our record above is drawn from it.

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