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Orange County Indexed

Hugh Dobbin to Jacob Roberson

August 1761 · Register of Orange, line 936

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1761
From
Hugh Dobbin
To
Jacob Roberson
Land
292 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 936

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: Gv111, to Hugh Dobbins Jr, 8 November 1755, 292 acres, on both sides of Country Line Creek
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-F
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 277

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 936). Our record above is drawn from it.

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