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Orange County Indexed

John Hunter to Charles Morgan

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1830

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
John Hunter
To
Charles Morgan
Land
177 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1830

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: Gv92, to John Hunter, 8 May 1755, 177 acres, on a small branch of Eno River that runs through Capt Gray's land
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 140

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 1830). Our record above is drawn from it.

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