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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to John Patterson

September 1758 · Register of Orange, line 459

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
September 1758
From
Earl Granville
To
John Patterson
Land
640 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 459

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: Gv228, to John Patterson, 23 May 1758, 640 acres, on S side of Haw River, on Robersons Creek, adj Little Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-I
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/323

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 459). Our record above is drawn from it.

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