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Orange County Indexed

William Leaky to Edward Bray

June 1758 · Register of Orange, line 419

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
June 1758
From
William Leaky
To
Edward Bray
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
Citation
Register of Orange, line 419

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: Gv64, to William Leaky, 5 February 1755, 405 acres, on Middle Branch of Rocky River of Deep River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 603
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 419
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/298

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 419). Our record above is drawn from it.

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