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Orange County Indexed

Francis Jones to John Miles

August 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1686

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1764
From
Francis Jones
To
John Miles
Land
230 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1686

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: Gv272, to Francis Jones, 22 February 1759, 230 acres, on S side of Bear Creek, opposite Little Bear Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 558

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 1686). Our record above is drawn from it.

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