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Orange County Indexed

William Cox to Phebe Allen

May 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1613

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1764
From
William Cox
To
Phebe Allen
Land
240 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1613

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: Gv136, to William McFarson, 20 February 1756, 480 acres, on both sides of Toms Creek alias Mill Creek, on W side of Deep River, adj William Cox
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 412
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 476
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1353
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1613
  • Earlier title: RaWB 2/29

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 1613). Our record above is drawn from it.

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