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Orange County Indexed

John Wright [& wife Rachel] to William Brown

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 511

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
John Wright
To
William Brown
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
Citation
Register of Orange, line 511

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: Gv66, to John Wright, 2 March 1755, 404 acres, on Cane Creek, adj James Williams
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-K-7
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/278

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 511). Our record above is drawn from it.

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