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Orange County Indexed

Alexander Mebane to Robert Tinning

February 1762 · Register of Orange, line 975

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
February 1762
From
Alexander Mebane
To
Robert Tinning
Land
356 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 975

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: Gv189, to Alexander Mebane, 13 November 1756, 356 acres, on S side of Cane Creek, on N side of Haw River, about a mile above the Piney Mountain
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 96-D
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 320

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 975). Our record above is drawn from it.

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