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Orange County Indexed

John Gray to Joseph Maddock

March 1758 · Register of Orange, line 407

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1758
From
John Gray
To
Joseph Maddock
Land
360 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 407

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: Gv150, to John Gray, 15 March 1756, 360 acres, on both sides of Eno River, both sides of the Old Courthouse Road, adj James Taylor
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 209
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/198

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 407). Our record above is drawn from it.

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