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Orange County Indexed

William Blunt to John Allison

2 October 1788 · ODB 4/77

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
2 October 1788
From
William Blunt
To
John Allison
Land
100 acres
Neighbors
James Jackson; Jacob Dennis; Jacob Brinton
Citation
ODB 4/77
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: Gv283, to John Dennis, 27 February 1759, 507 acres, on branches of Buck Quarter Creek of Eno River, adj Isaac Jackson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-M
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 683
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2232
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2233
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2268
  • Earlier title: ODB 4/75

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 4/77). Our record above is drawn from it.

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