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Orange County Indexed

John Bradley [John Brantley] to William Ridley [William Riddle]

February 1763 · Register of Orange, line 1029

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1763
From
John Bradley [John Brantley]
To
William Ridley [William Riddle]
Land
700 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1029

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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: Gv688, to John Brantley, 6 September 1762, 700 acres, on Deep River, adj Robert Shepherd, Joseph Brantley
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1029
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1701

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: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange County (The Deed Book Zero Project) (look for Register of Orange, line 1029). Our record above is drawn from it.

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