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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Samuel Walker

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 594

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
March 1759
From
Earl Granville
To
Samuel Walker
Land
283 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 594

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: Gv264, to Samuel Walker, 22 February 1759, 583 acres, on Sandy Creek, adj Harmon Husband
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-B
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/371

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 594). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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