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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Thomas Cate

December 1759 · Register of Orange, line 654

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
December 1759
From
Earl Granville
To
Thomas Cate
Land
456 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 654

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: Gv290, to Thomas Cate Jr, 7 March 1759, 456 acres, on fork of Cane Creek, on N side of Haw River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-G

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 654). Our record above is drawn from it.

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