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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Alexander McCraken

February 1761 · Register of Orange, line 844

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
February 1761
From
Earl Granville
To
Alexander McCraken
Land
318 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 844

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: Gv420, to Alexander McCracken, 4 August 1760, 318 acres, adj Pollock, Old Courthouse Road
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95.1-B

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 844). Our record above is drawn from it.

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