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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Nathaniel Howel [Nathaniel Powell]

August 1759 · Register of Orange, line 724

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
August 1759
From
Earl Granville
To
Nathaniel Howel [Nathaniel Powell]
Land
700 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 724

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: Gv421, to Nathaniel Powell, 5 August 1760, 700 acres, on N side of Deep River, on both sides of Indian Creek, adj Stephen Howard
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 98-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 724

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 724). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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