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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Thompson to Joseph Thompson

9 August 1785 · ODB 4/51

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 August 1785
From
Thomas Thompson
To
Joseph Thompson
Land
278 acres
Earlier title
Granville to Zachariah Cadle|NC to Thomas Thompson
Citation
ODB 4/51
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: Gv18, to Zachary Cadle, 25 October 1753, 640 acres, on Back Creek, below the Upper Buffalo Lick
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 94
  • State grant file: Ofile 1048

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 4/51). Our record above is drawn from it.

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