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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to James Taylor

March 1757 · Register of Orange, line 364

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
March 1757
From
Earl Granville
To
James Taylor
Land
350 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 364

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: Gv115, to James Taylor, 8 November 1755, 360 acres, on both sides of S Fork of Flat River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-C

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 364). Our record above is drawn from it.

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