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Orange County Indexed

Robert Erwin to Samuel Allen

November 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1730

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1764
From
Robert Erwin
To
Samuel Allen
Land
217 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1730

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: Gv407, to Robert Erwin, 2 August 1760, 217 acres, on SW side of Eno River, on both isdes of the Old Courthouse Road
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1566

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 1730). Our record above is drawn from it.

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