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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Samuel Harris

September 1756 · Register of Orange, line 278

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
September 1756
From
Earl Granville
To
Samuel Harris
Land
50 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 278

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: Gv17, to Samuel Harris, 25 October 1753, 50 acres, on SW side of Northwest River of Cape Fear, between Fall Creek & Gulf Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 279

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 278). Our record above is drawn from it.

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