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Sarah Lytle to Robert Lytle

23 November 1799 · ODB 8/287

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 November 1799
From
Sarah Lytle
To
Robert Lytle
Land
146 acres, 20 poles
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Neighbors
Jonathan Sells
Earlier title
Granville to John Dennis Sr 27 Feb 1759
Citation
ODB 8/287
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 40004, “Record of Deeds, 1798-1800, Vols. 7, 8” (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 1868
  • Later title: ODB 4/10 (Sarah Lytle)
  • Later title: ODB 11/127
  • Proved at the November 1799 court, 28 November 1799 (OCPQS 5/627)

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 8 (look for ODB 8/287). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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