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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to James Watson

1753 · Register of Orange, line 85

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
1753
From
Earl Granville
To
James Watson
Land
321 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 85

Reading notes: Only the year 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: Gv51, to James Watson, 17 June 1754, 321 acres, on forks of Seven Mile Creek, adj Mr Gray
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 102-C

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 85). Our record above is drawn from it.

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