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Orange County Indexed

David Bradford to William Bradford

20 May 1771 · ODB 5/96

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 May 1771
From
David Bradford
To
William Bradford
Land
188 acres
Waterways
on Stags Creek
Earlier title
Granville to James Bird
Citation
ODB 5/96
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: Gv351, to James Bird, 24 July 1760, 388 acres, on Staggs Creek of Back Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1950
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 804

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 5/96). Our record above is drawn from it.

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