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Michael Robinson to James Robinson

27 February 1798 · ODB 6/379

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
27 February 1798
From
Michael Robinson
To
James Robinson
Land
  1. Tract 1: 200 acres
    Waterways: on N Fork of Little River
Earlier title
part of 419 acres granted to William Bogan 15 Jun 1754 , to James McAllister 20 Jan 1769 , McAllister to Michael Robinson 23 Jan 1769
Citation
ODB 6/379
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: Gv49, to William Boggan, 15 June 1754, 419 acres, on S side of S Fork of Little River, adj John Dunagan
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 120
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 345
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/15
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/216
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/510
  • Proved at the February 1798 court (OCPQS 5/365)

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 6 (look for ODB 6/379). Our record above is drawn from it.

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