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Orange County Indexed

John Posey to James Temple

February 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1443

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1764
From
John Posey
To
James Temple
Land
200 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1443

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: 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
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1443

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 1443). Our record above is drawn from it.

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