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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Benjamin Saxton

August 1765 · Register of Orange, line 2031

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
August 1765
From
Earl Granville
To
Benjamin Saxton
Land
660 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2031

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: Gv527, to Benjamin Saxon, 11 June 1761, 660 acres, on Northeast Fork of New Hope Creek, adj George Martin
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2031
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2051

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 2031). Our record above is drawn from it.

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