Orange County Indexed
John Forgerson to James Lea
December 1756 · Register of Orange, line 294
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- December 1756
- From
- John Forgerson
- To
- James Lea
- Land
- 298 acres
- Citation
- Register of Orange, line 294
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: Gv170, to John Ferguson, 5 November 1756, 629 acres, on Cobbs Creek, adj Mary Maxwell, William Lea
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 90-D
- Proved at: OCPQS 1/188
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 294). Our record above is drawn from it.
