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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Hosea Tapley

December 1755 · Register of Orange, line 196

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
December 1755
From
Earl Granville
To
Hosea Tapley
Land
400 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 196

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.

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 196). Our record above is drawn from it.

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