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Orange County Indexed

John Roberts to William Shad

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1879

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
John Roberts
To
William Shad
Land
120 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1879

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: Gv506, to John Roberts, 7 June 1761, 120 acres, on ridges in fork of Rattlesnake Creek, adj his own land, branch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 864

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 1879). Our record above is drawn from it.

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