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Orange County Indexed

James Ray to William Petty

August 1766 · Register of Orange, line 2300

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1766
From
James Ray
To
William Petty
Land
162 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2300

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.

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 2300). Our record above is drawn from it.

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