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Orange County Indexed

Hosea Tapley to John Ambrey

March 1756 · Register of Orange, line 215

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1756
From
Hosea Tapley
To
John Ambrey
Land
402 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 215

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: Gv124, to Hosea Tapley, 2 January 1756, 402 acres, on both sides of N Fork of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-B
  • Earlier title: ODB 1/233

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 215). Our record above is drawn from it.

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