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Orange County Indexed

Richard Jones to Gedian Gilbert

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 552

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
Richard Jones
To
Gedian Gilbert
Land
140 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 552

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: Gv44, to Joseph Wells, 11 June 1754, 562 acres, on both sides of Bloody Creek of Bush Creek of Deep River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 374
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 341

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 552). Our record above is drawn from it.

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