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Orange County Indexed

Peter Craven to John Pryor

May 1761 · Register of Orange, line 912

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
May 1761
From
Peter Craven
To
John Pryor
Land
597 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 912

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: Gv592, to Peter Craven, 14 October 1761, 597 acres, on Deep Creek of Flat River, adj John Bumpass
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 88-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2123

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 912). Our record above is drawn from it.

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