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Orange County Indexed

William Kenady to Francis Day

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 701

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
William Kenady
To
Francis Day
Land
382 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 701

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: Gv190, to William Kennedy, 7 May 1757, 382 acres, adj Bolin, Wilkinson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-E
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 464

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 701). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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