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Orange County Indexed

John Overton to Robert Wilkins

March 1759 · Register of Orange, line 709

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
March 1759
From
John Overton
To
Robert Wilkins
Land
170 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 709

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: Gv202, to Stephen Howard, 11 May 1757, 530 acres, on N side of Deep River, opposite the Pocket, adj Indian Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 92-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 429
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 485
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 709
  • Later title: CDB D/548

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 709). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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