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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to James Hutchins

10 July 1788 · ODB 4/5

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
10 July 1788
From
North Carolina
To
James Hutchins
Land
170 acres
Waterways
waters of Second Creek
Neighbors
John Rhodes; Peelor
Citation
ODB 4/5
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1781
  • Granville grant: Gv265, to James Cheek, 22 February 1759, 409 acres, on both sides of N Fork of Little River, adj Boggan
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1536
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 684
  • See also: ODB 4/725

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 4/5). Our record above is drawn from it.

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