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Orange County Indexed

James Bird to David Bradford

November 1760 · Register of Orange, line 804

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
November 1760
From
James Bird
To
David Bradford
Land
188 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 804

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: Gv351, to James Bird, 24 July 1760, 388 acres, on Staggs Creek of Back Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 84-G
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1950
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 804
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/491

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 804). Our record above is drawn from it.

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