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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Joseph Barnet

December 1757 · Register of Orange, line 392

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
December 1757
From
Earl Granville
To
Joseph Barnet
Land
247 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 392

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: Gv220, to Joseph Barnett, 7 November 1757, 247 acres, on Hico Road, where on he now lives
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-D
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/259

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 392). Our record above is drawn from it.

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