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Orange County Indexed

William Searcy to Mary Pierce

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1884

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
William Searcy
To
Mary Pierce
Land
100 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1884

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: Gv511, to William Searcy, 9 June 1761, 640 acres, on both sides of Deep River, adj Searcy
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-A
  • Granville grant: Gv432, to William Searcy, 7 January 1761, 640 acres, on both sides of Deep River, adj Lord Granville's S boundary line
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1884

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 1884). Our record above is drawn from it.

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