Henry Ledbetter to William Jay Jr

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

May 1765

From

Henry Ledbetter

To

William Jay Jr

Land

375 acres

Citation

Register of Orange, line 1881

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: Gv488, to Edward Moore, 6 February 1761, 375 acres, on both sides of Flat River, adj Hosea Tapley, William Jay
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-H
• Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2045

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 1881). Our record above is drawn from it.