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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Joseph McLester

August 1765 · Register of Orange, line 2023

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
August 1765
From
Earl Granville
To
Joseph McLester
Land
127 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2023

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: Gv395, to Joseph McLester, 2 August 1760, 127 acres, on Middle Ground between Terrells Creek & Dry Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2273

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 2023). Our record above is drawn from it.

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