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Orange County Indexed

Hardy Morgan to Benjamin Yeargan

25 January 1790 · ODB 4/625

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
25 January 1790
From
Hardy Morgan
To
Benjamin Yeargan
Land
50 acres
Neighbors
Yeargan; Morgan; Christopher Barbee
Roads and landmarks
Chapel Road
Citation
ODB 4/625
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: Gv784, to Mark Morgan, 11 January 1763, 600 acres, on waters of Morgan Creek & Bolin Creek, called the Chapel Tract, adj Patterson, Eason, Rigsbee's Spring Branch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1249

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 4/625). Our record above is drawn from it.

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