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Orange County Indexed

John Crieg to James Paule

September 1755 · Register of Orange, line 129

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
September 1755
From
John Crieg
To
James Paule
Land
360 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 129

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: Gv46, to John Craig, 12 June 1754, 360 acres, on a branch of Eno River, adj James Taylor
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-G

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 129). Our record above is drawn from it.

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