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Orange County Indexed

Francis Day to Jonathan Fincher

September 1755 · Register of Orange, line 155

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
September 1755
From
Francis Day
To
Jonathan Fincher
Land
416 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 155

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: Gv72, to Francis Day, 12 March 1755, 416 acres, on waters of Seven Mile Creek, adj Michael Synnott
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-L
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 242

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 155). Our record above is drawn from it.

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