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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to Enoch Lewis

August 1761 · Register of Orange, line 950

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
August 1761
From
Earl Granville
To
Enoch Lewis
Land
480 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 950

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: Gv657, to Enoch Lewis, 28 June 1762, 480 acres, on Buckhorn Creek of Cape Fear River, adj Henry Shaddock, Lewis
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-H

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 950). Our record above is drawn from it.

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