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Orange County Indexed

John Grist to Osborne Jefferys

December 1755 · Register of Orange, line 177

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
December 1755
From
John Grist
To
Osborne Jefferys
Land
225 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 177

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: Gv11, to John Grice, 28 April 1753, 225 acres, on a branch of Flat River, adj Osborn Jeffreys, head of a branch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 28

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 177). Our record above is drawn from it.

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