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Orange County Indexed

Harman Cox to Isaac Varnon

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 475

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
Harman Cox
To
Isaac Varnon
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
Citation
Register of Orange, line 475

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given. The published abstract also gives 479 and 497 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

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: Gv243, to Harmon Cox, 5 August 1758, 497 acres, on E side of Deep River, adj mouth of a gully
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-E
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/352

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 475). Our record above is drawn from it.

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