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Orange County Indexed

Jennings Thompson to John Powell

August 1766 · Register of Orange, line 2277

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1766
From
Jennings Thompson
To
John Powell
Land
200 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2277

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: Gv655, to David Phillips Sr, 28 June 1762, 700 acres, on S side of Haw River, on Nelsons Run, adj Holt
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1048
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2277

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 2277). Our record above is drawn from it.

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