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Orange County Indexed

John Brooks to William Cain & David Ray

26 February 1793 · ODB 4/659

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 February 1793
From
John Brooks
To
William Cain; David Ray
Waterways
both sides of Buck Quarter Creek
Neighbors
Captain Synnott
Earlier title
Granville to Isaac Jackson 20 Mar 1755
Citation
ODB 4/659
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: Gv69, to Isaac Jackson, 12 March 1755, 350 acres, on both sides of Buck Quarter Creek, adj Capt Synnott
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 245
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 170
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2681
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/20
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/655

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 4/659). Our record above is drawn from it.

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