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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Valentine Hollingsworth

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1908

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
May 1765
From
Earl Granville
To
Valentine Hollingsworth
Land
420 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1908

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: Gv410, to Valentine Hollingsworth, 2 August 1760, 420 acres, on W side of Haw River, on the fork of Cane Creek, adj Hugh Laughlin, Hollingsworth, Thomas Lindley
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 92-G
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/446

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 1908). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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