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Orange County Indexed

John Bohannan to Richard Bohannan

November 1764 · Register of Orange, line 1808

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1764
From
John Bohannan
To
Richard Bohannan
Land
695 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1808

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: Gv316, to Duncan Bohannon, 21 August 1759, 695 acres, on S side of Deep River, just above the mouth of Rocky River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 656

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 1808). Our record above is drawn from it.

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