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Isaac Dennis to Robert Marley

22 April 1772 · ODB 6/404

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 April 1772
From
Isaac Dennis
To
Robert Marley
Land
90 acres, 8 perches
Waterways
on Buck Quarter Creek
Earlier title
Granville to John Dennis|John Dennis to Isaac Dennis 27 Apr 1768
Citation
ODB 6/404
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: 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 2632
  • Proved at the February 1798 court (OCPQS 5/366)

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 6/404). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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