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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Wiley to William Reed [William Wiley?]

June 1755 · Register of Orange, line 96

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
June 1755
From
Thomas Wiley
To
William Reed [William Wiley?]
Land
381 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 96

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

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 96). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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