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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Sheels to Simon Fooshee

February 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1512

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1764
From
Thomas Sheels
To
Simon Fooshee
Land
273 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1512

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: Gv775, to Thomas Shiles, 4 January 1763, 546 acres, on Brooks Creek of Haw River, adj William Marsh
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1559

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 1512). Our record above is drawn from it.

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