Hugh Smith to William Cox

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

March 1759

From

Hugh Smith

To

William Cox

Land

1. Tract 1: measure not given

Citation

Register of Orange, line 486

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given. The published abstract also gives 428 and 425 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: Gv47, to Samuel Nelson, 12 June 1754, 425 acres, on waters of John Williams Mill Creek, adj David Miers, Thomas Matthews, DCC: William Miers & John Standfield
• Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-B

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 486). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.