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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to John May

December 1756 · Register of Orange, line 318

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
December 1756
From
Earl Granville
To
John May
Land
520 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 318

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: Gv129, to John May, 13 February 1756, 520 acres, on M Fork of Tick Creek of Rocky River of Deep River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-D
  • 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 318). Our record above is drawn from it.

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