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Orange County Indexed

Jeffrey Beck to John Johnston

July 1768 · Register of Orange, line 2627

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
July 1768
From
Jeffrey Beck
To
John Johnston
Land
175 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2627

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: Gv656, to Moses Nelson, 28 June 1762, 625 acres, on Alden Branch of Mile Branch of Rocky River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2107
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2627

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 2627). Our record above is drawn from it.

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