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Orange County Indexed

John Wood to Gilbert Strean

September 1755 · Register of Orange, line 114

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
September 1755
From
John Wood
To
Gilbert Strean
Land
600 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 114

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: Gv43, to John Woods, 11 June 1754, 600 acres, on Stones Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 113
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/111
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/2
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/202
  • Same deed also recorded at: ODB 2/205

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 114). Our record above is drawn from it.

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