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Orange County Indexed

James Taylor to William Few

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 539

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
James Taylor
To
William Few
Land
640 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 539

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 344
  • Granville grant: Gv472, to John Dunagan, 2 February 1761, 392 acres, on both sides of Little River, adj Michael Synnott, Joseph Ellison, Robert Wilson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2029
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 539
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/278
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/485

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 539). Our record above is drawn from it.

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