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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Cox to Jacob Grigg

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1831

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
Thomas Cox
To
Jacob Grigg
Land
179 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1831

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: Gv244, to Thomas Cox, 5 August 1758, 400 acres, on Richland Creek of Deep River, adj Benjamin Cox

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 1831). Our record above is drawn from it.

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