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Orange County Indexed

William Riddle to Benjamin Watts

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1846

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
William Riddle
To
Benjamin Watts
Land
200 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1846

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: Gv688, to John Brantley, 6 September 1762, 700 acres, on Deep River, adj Robert Shepherd, Joseph Brantley
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1029
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1701

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 1846). Our record above is drawn from it.

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