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Orange County Indexed

Mark Morgan to John King

September 1752 · Register of Orange, line 37

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
September 1752
From
Mark Morgan
To
John King
Land
380 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 37

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: Gv5, to Mark Morgan, 22 April 1753, 380 acres, on head branches of Lick Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 235
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/39

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 37). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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