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Orange County Indexed

Stephen Howard to William Thompson

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 484

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
Stephen Howard
To
William Thompson
Land
329 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 484

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: Gv202, to Stephen Howard, 11 May 1757, 530 acres, on N side of Deep River, opposite the Pocket, adj Indian Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 92-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 429
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 484
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/358

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 484). Our record above is drawn from it.

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