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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to John Tomlinson

June 1756 · Register of Orange, line 226

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
June 1756
From
Earl Granville
To
John Tomlinson
Land
135 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 226

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: Gv154, to John Tomlinson, 5 May 1756, 135 acres, on S side of Deep River, about two miles below the Cape Fear Road
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-J

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 226). Our record above is drawn from it.

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