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Orange County Indexed

Luke and Martin Bynum to John Hatley

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1905

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1765
From
Luke; Martin Bynum
To
John Hatley
Land
350 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1905

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: Gv680, to Luke Bynum, 30 June 1762, 700 acres, on New Hope Creek, adj John Falconer, Parker
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1198

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 1905). Our record above is drawn from it.

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