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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to John Johnson

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 673

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
March 1759
From
Earl Granville
To
John Johnson
Land
382 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 673

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: Gv302, to John Johnston, 6 August 1759, 382 acres, on a branch of Mudlick Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 93-K

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 673). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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