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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Swafford to Thomas Basket

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 491

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
Thomas Swafford
To
Thomas Basket
Land
150 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 491

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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 7
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 32
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/352
  • Earlier title: Patent Book 11:16
  • Earlier title: OWB A/72
  • In the will books: Will of William Baskett (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 491). Our record above is drawn from it.

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