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Orange County Indexed

William Forrest & Thomas Forrest & John Mannen to Benjamin Forrest

August 1761 · Register of Orange, line 959

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
August 1761
From
William Forrest; Thomas Forrest; John Mannen
To
Benjamin Forrest
Land
209 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 959

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.

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 959). Our record above is drawn from it.

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