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Orange County Indexed

John Scarlet to John Railey

August 1761 · Register of Orange, line 951

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1761
From
John Scarlet
To
John Railey
Land
700 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 951

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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 951
  • Granville grant: Gv538, to John Scarlet, 2 October 1761, 700 acres, on both sides of Eno River, adj James Couch
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-L

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 951). Our record above is drawn from it.

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