Orange County Indexed
Benjamin Clements to Joseph Copeland
March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 499
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Land sale
- Date
- March 1759
- From
- Benjamin Clements
- To
- Joseph Copeland
- Land
- Tract 1: measure not given
- Citation
- Register of Orange, line 499
Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given. The published abstract also gives 406 and 486 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: Gv246, to Benjamin Clements, 2 November 1758, 486 acres, on N side of Haw River, adj small island
- Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-G
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 499
- Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1781
- Proved at: OCPQS 1/358
- Later title: CDB A/51
- Later title: CDB A/232
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 499). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
