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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Edward Jones [Edward Stone]

1753 · Register of Orange, line 95

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
1753
From
Earl Granville
To
Edward Jones [Edward Stone]
Land
395 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 95

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: Gv74, to Edward Stone, 12 March 1755, 395 acres, on N side of Stones Creek, adj Governor's line
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 100-G-5
  • Proved at: OCPQS 1/111

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 95). Our record above is drawn from it.

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