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Orange County Indexed

Harmon Husband to Aquilla Jones

November 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1761

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1764
From
Harmon Husband
To
Aquilla Jones
Land
644 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1761

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: Gv724, to Harmon Husband, 11 December 1762, 661 acres, on Sandy Creek of Deep River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-B
  • Granville grant: Gv241, to Harmon Husband, 5 August 1758, 644 acres, on head branches of Sandy Creek, adj a small branch of Rocky River, Husband
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-D

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 1761). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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