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Orange County Indexed

Major George Doherty to Jonathan Nicolas

1793 · Register of Orange, line 2698

The deed

Kind of deed
Other
Date
1793
From
Major George Doherty
To
Jonathan Nicolas
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2698

Reading notes: Only the year is given. The kind of instrument is our best reading.

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: Gv281, to Daniel Kain, 27 February 1759, 428 acres, on both sides of Forresters Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 607
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 609
  • Later title: OWB A/164
  • Later title: ODB 2/124 (John Kelly)
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/82
  • In the will books: Will of David Pinkerton (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 2698). Our record above is drawn from it.

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