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Orange County Indexed

William Varnel to Alexander Torringtine

November 1767 · Register of Orange, line 2526

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1767
From
William Varnel
To
Alexander Torringtine
Land
390 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2526

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: Gv453, to William Varnal, 28 January 1761, 399 acres, on a branch of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-M
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2425

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 2526). Our record above is drawn from it.

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