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Orange County Indexed

Peter King to Richard Simpson

February 1762 · Register of Orange, line 971

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1762
From
Peter King
To
Richard Simpson
Land
560 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 971

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: Gv434, to Peter King, 8 January 1761, 560 acres, on Little Troublesome Creek, branches of Pruits Fork
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 94-I
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 871

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 971). Our record above is drawn from it.

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