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Orange County Indexed

Richard Simpson to Daniel Adams

June 1758 · Register of Orange, line 427

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
June 1758
From
Richard Simpson
To
Daniel Adams
Land
100 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 427

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: Gv143, to Richard Simpson, 15 March 1756, 612 acres, on N Fork of Haw River, adj Joseph Pinson, High Rock Creek
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/277

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 427). Our record above is drawn from it.

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