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Orange County Indexed

Edward Branon to Jacob Railey

February 1767 · Register of Orange, line 2378

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1767
From
Edward Branon
To
Jacob Railey
Land
196 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2378

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: Gv236, to James Taylor, 23 May 1758, 196 acres, on W side of Eno River, adj late Gov Johnston
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-B
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 433

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 2378). Our record above is drawn from it.

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