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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Bumpass to John Cooley

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1888

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
Samuel Bumpass
To
John Cooley
Land
440 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1888

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: Gv582, to Samuel Bumpass, 13 October 1761, 440 acres, on Spring Branch of Flat River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2124
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1888

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 1888). Our record above is drawn from it.

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