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Orange County Indexed

Joseph Pinson to Joseph Porter [sic]

December 1755 · Register of Orange, line 176

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
December 1755
From
Joseph Pinson
To
Joseph Porter [sic]
Land
393 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 176

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: Gv52, to Joseph Pinson, 6 September 1754, 393 acres, on E side of N Fork of Haw River, adj mouth of High Rock Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2280

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 176). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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