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Orange County Indexed

Jacob Barnes to Gedion Gilbert

February 1767 · Register of Orange, line 2411

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1767
From
Jacob Barnes
To
Gedion Gilbert
Land
289 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2411

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: Gv705, to Jacob Barnes, 8 December 1762, 578 acres, on Bear Creek of Rocky River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 83-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1205

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 2411). Our record above is drawn from it.

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