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Orange County Indexed

Richard Kennon to William McClellan

20 November 1773 · ODB 4/356

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 November 1773
From
Richard Kennon
To
William McClellan
Land
320 acres
Waterways
on Forresters Creek
Citation
ODB 4/356
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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1583
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2334
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2619
  • Later title: ODB 4/356 (William McClellan)
  • Later title: OCPQS 3/121 (Hezekiah McClellan)

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 4 (look for ODB 4/356). Our record above is drawn from it.

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