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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to William Ursery [sic]

February 1761 · Register of Orange, line 855

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
February 1761
From
Earl Granville
To
William Ursery [sic]
Land
252 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 855

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: Gv445, to William Utley, 21 January 1761, 355 acres, on both sides of White Oak Swamp
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-L

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 855). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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