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Anthony Doherty to James Doherty

20 July 1796 · ODB 5/527

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 July 1796
From
Anthony Doherty
To
James Doherty
Land
20 acres
Waterways
on Buck Quarter Creek
Neighbors
Anthony Doherty
Earlier title
Granville to Isaac Jackson 12 Mar 1755
Citation
ODB 5/527
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: 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 2529
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/120
  • Proved at the August 1796 court, 26 August 1796 (OCPQS 5/135)

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 5/527). Our record above is drawn from it.

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