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Orange County Indexed

John Bohannon to Christopher Barbee

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 559

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
John Bohannon
To
Christopher Barbee
Land
567 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 559

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: Gv109, to John Rhodes, 7 November 1755, 567 acres, on both sides of Kitts Creek of Northeast Creek of New Hope Creek, adj low grounds
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-B

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 559). Our record above is drawn from it.

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