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Orange County Indexed

William Wiley to William Forbus

November 1760 · Register of Orange, line 788

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1760
From
William Wiley
To
William Forbus
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
Citation
Register of Orange, line 788

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given. The published abstract also gives 640 and 641 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/489

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 788). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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