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Orange County Indexed

William Comb to Michael Picket [Micajah Pickett]

November 1760 · Register of Orange, line 785

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1760
From
William Comb
To
Michael Picket [Micajah Pickett]
Land
181 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 785

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: Gv268, to William Combs, 22 February 1759, 181 acres, on Mountain Creek of Flat River, adj Churton
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 87-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 784
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/490

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 785). Our record above is drawn from it.

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