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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Henry Johnson

December 1756 · Register of Orange, line 306

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
December 1756
From
Earl Granville
To
Henry Johnson
Land
269 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 306

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: Gv152, to Henry Johnston, 15 March 1756, 269 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Forrester
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 306
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/191

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 306). Our record above is drawn from it.

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