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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to William Chambers

August 1759 · Register of Orange, line 739

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
August 1759
From
Earl Granville
To
William Chambers
Land
436 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 739

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: Gv364, to William Chambers, 28 July 1760, 435 acres, on E side of Marlowes Creek, adj Harrelson, Hughes Creek, Dickson
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-H
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/446

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 739). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The register heading for this entry is uncertain.
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