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Orange County Indexed

Christopher Rhodes to Solomon Barnes

August 1761 · Register of Orange, line 939

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1761
From
Christopher Rhodes
To
Solomon Barnes
Land
593 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 939

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: Gv370, to Christopher Rhodes, 29 July 1760, 593 acres, on both sides of Crooked Creek of New Hope Creek, adj Mark Morgan, Joseph Barbee
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-A
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1212
  • See also: ODB 3/450
  • See also: ODB H/54

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 939). Our record above is drawn from it.

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