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Orange County Indexed

Robert Abercrombie to James Faucett

25 July 1788 · ODB 4/506

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
25 July 1788
From
Robert Abercrombie
To
James Faucett
Land
287.5 acres
Waterways
S Fork of Little River
Neighbors
John Dunagan
Earlier title
Granville to William Bogan 2 Feb 1759
Citation
ODB 4/506
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: Gv279, to William Boggan, 22 February 1759, 460 acres, on S Fork of Little River, adj John Dunagan, Kain, Boggan
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 555
  • Proved at the November 1791 court (OCPQS 4/389)

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 4/506). Our record above is drawn from it.

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