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Orange County Indexed

William Cox to Harmon Cobb [Harmon Cox]

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 487

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
William Cox
To
Harmon Cobb [Harmon Cox]
Land
375 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 487

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: Gv218, to William Cox, 5 November 1757, 375 acres, on head of Cox's Mill Creek of Deep River, on both sides of Crawford's Road
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 454

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 487). Our record above is drawn from it.

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