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Orange County Indexed

Earl Granville to William Graves

May 1762 · Register of Orange, line 990

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
May 1762
From
Earl Granville
To
William Graves
Land
401 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 990

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: Gv481, to William Graves, 3 February 1761, 401 acres, on Little Brush Creek of Deep River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 91-E

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 990). Our record above is drawn from it.

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