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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Zachariah Martin Sr

May 1765 · Register of Orange, line 1911

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
May 1765
From
Earl Granville
To
Zachariah Martin Sr
Land
339 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 1911

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: Gv460, to Zachariah Martin Jr, 30 January 1761, 339 acres, on both sides of Rocky River & Cape Fear Road
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-B

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 1911). Our record above is drawn from it.

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