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Orange County Indexed

James Watson to William Goss

December 1756 · Register of Orange, line 298

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
December 1756
From
James Watson
To
William Goss
Land
275 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 298

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: Gv127, to James Watson, 13 February 1756, 275 acres, on E side of Eno River, adj late Governor's line
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 300
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/182

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 298). Our record above is drawn from it.

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