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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to John Armstrong

March 1758 · Register of Orange, line 409

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
March 1758
From
Earl Granville
To
John Armstrong
Land
500 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 409

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: Gv224, to John Armstong, 26 January 1758, 500 acres, on S side of Dan River, both sides of Moons Creek, adj Mayo
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 83-E
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/281

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 409). Our record above is drawn from it.

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