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Orange County Indexed

George Williams to James Downin

October 1754 · Register of Orange, line 77

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
October 1754
From
George Williams
To
James Downin
Land
240 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 77

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: Gv13, to George Williams, 2 May 1753, 640 acres, on S side of Haw River, on N side of Cane Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-H
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 77
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/85

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 77). Our record above is drawn from it.

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