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Orange County Indexed

Robert Witty to Ralph McNair

November 1766 · Register of Orange, line 2351

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1766
From
Robert Witty
To
Ralph McNair
Land
700 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2351

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: Gv673, to Robert Witty, 30 June 1762, 700 acres, on Seven Mile Creek of Eno River, adj Minnis
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-F

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 2351). Our record above is drawn from it.

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