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Orange County Indexed

Enoch Lewis to Ephraim Potter

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 695

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
Enoch Lewis
To
Ephraim Potter
Land
465 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 695

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: Gv193, to Enoch Lewis, 10 May 1757, 465 acres, on both sides of Wolf Island Creek of Dan River, adj rock on top of a hill, branch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 379

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 695). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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