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Orange County Indexed

John Rainey to Garrand Terry

February 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1519

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1764
From
John Rainey
To
Garrand Terry
Land
170 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1519

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: Gv503, to John Rainey, 7 June 1761, 290 acres, on N side of Dan River, on Cane Creek, adj the Country Line, Mayo

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 1519). Our record above is drawn from it.

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