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Orange County Indexed

John Forrest Sr to John Forrest Jr

26 December 1794 · ODB 5/208

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 December 1794
From
John Forrest Sr
To
John Forrest Jr
Land
128 acres
Earlier title
Granville to Zachariah Keadle 25 Oct 1753|Lard to Benjamin Thompson|Thompson to John Forrest Sr
Citation
ODB 5/208
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 40003, “Record of Deeds, 1787-1798, Vols. 5, 6” (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
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 105
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1975
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1976

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 5 (look for ODB 5/208). Our record above is drawn from it.

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