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Orange County Indexed

Granville to John Posey

17 December 1762 · ODB 9/67

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
17 December 1762
From
Granville
To
John Posey
Land
407 acres
Waterways
on Rocky River
Neighbors
Ambrose Smith
Citation
ODB 9/67
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 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (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: Gv745, to John Posey, 17 December 1762, 407 acres, on S side of Rocky River, adj Ambrose Smith
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1223

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 9 (look for ODB 9/67). Our record above is drawn from it.

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