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Orange County Indexed

Gabriel Johnston to David Mitchell

June 1752 · Register of Orange, line 6

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
June 1752
From
Gabriel Johnston
To
David Mitchell
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
Citation
Register of Orange, line 6

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given. The published abstract also gives 280.5 and 260.5 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

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 6
  • Earlier title: OCPQS 3/18

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 6). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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