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Orange County Indexed

Edward Gilbert to Robert Smith

August 1766 · Register of Orange, line 2272

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1766
From
Edward Gilbert
To
Robert Smith
Land
381 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2272

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: Gv426, to Robert Samuel Brashears, 8 August 1760, 381 acres, on N Buffalo Creek & S Buffalo Creek, adj Donnell, John McKnight
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 872

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 2272). Our record above is drawn from it.

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