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Orange County Indexed

Christopher Rhodes to Joseph Barbee

March 1757 · Register of Orange, line 339

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1757
From
Christopher Rhodes
To
Joseph Barbee
Land
570 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 339

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: Gv171, to Christopher Rhodes, 5 November 1756, 570 acres, on Third Fork of New Hope Creek, adj Christopher Rodes
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 461

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 339). Our record above is drawn from it.

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