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Orange County Indexed

Benjamin Carter to Hugh Dobbins

August 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1717

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1764
From
Benjamin Carter
To
Hugh Dobbins
Land
262 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1717

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: Gv413, to Benjamin Carter, 2 August 1760, 262 acres, on both sides of Rattlesnake Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 821

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 1717). Our record above is drawn from it.

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