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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to John Burney

September 1757 · Register of Orange, line 383

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
September 1757
From
Earl Granville
To
John Burney
Land
575 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 383

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: Gv134, to John Burney, 20 February 1756, 575 acres, on both sides of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 85-J
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/190

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 383). Our record above is drawn from it.

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