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Orange County Indexed

McKie, Watson and Company to Duncan McKie

May 1767 · Register of Orange, line 2474

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1767
From
McKie, Watson and Company
To
Duncan McKie
Land
82 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2474

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: Gv771, to MacKie, 1 January 1763, 82 acres, on S side of Cape Fear River, adj Richard Brawell, Campbell
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1466

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 2474). Our record above is drawn from it.

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