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Orange County Indexed

Benjamin Saxton to William Nunn

February 1762 · Register of Orange, line 968

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1762
From
Benjamin Saxton
To
William Nunn
Land
660 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 968

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: Gv527, to Benjamin Saxon, 11 June 1761, 660 acres, on Northeast Fork of New Hope Creek, adj George Martin
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 99-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2031

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 968). Our record above is drawn from it.

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