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Orange County Indexed

William Davis to Henry White

August 1793 · Register of Orange, line 2772

The deed

Kind of deed
Other
Date
August 1793
From
William Davis
To
Henry White
Citation
Register of Orange, line 2772

Reading notes: Only the month or court term 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: Gv655, to David Phillips Sr, 28 June 1762, 700 acres, on S side of Haw River, on Nelsons Run, adj Holt
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-K

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 2772). Our record above is drawn from it.

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