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Orange County Indexed

Hardy Morgan to UNC

16 July 1793 · ODB 4/689

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
16 July 1793
From
Hardy Morgan
To
UNC
Land
80 acres
Neighbors
Petersburg
Earlier title
Granville to Mark Morgan 11 Jan 1763
Citation
ODB 4/689
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 4/689). Our record above is drawn from it.

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