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Facts and Events
Early Land Acquisition in Orange County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Orange County, Virginia Records:
- Pages 129-34. 5-6 Aug. 1741. Pierce Cordie of Orange County to Richard Nall of same. Lease and release; for £18 current money. 200 acres in the Great Fork of Rappahannock River... corner to a pattend granted to Robt. Coleman... on a knole byu Buttock Run... to Norman's knocking place... lower line of a pattent granted to Joseph Bloodworth and Conrade Amberger. (signed) Pirce (X) Cordie. Wit: G. Home, Edwd. Herndon, Benjamin Bowelier [Bowcher in release], Thos. Foster. 26 Nov. 1741. Proved by George Home. 26 March 1742. Further proved by Edward Herndon and Thomas Foster. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 5, Dorman, pg. 7].
Records of Richard Nall in Orange County, VA
- Pages 17-22. 26-27 Oct. 1742. Joseph cotten and Catherine his wife of St. Mark's Parish, Orange County to James Johnson of same. Lease and release; for £12.10.0 current money. 100 acres, part of a pattent granted unto Jos. Bloodworth and Conrad Amberger 2 Aug. 1736, being half of a tract which Joseph Cotten purchased of Conrade Amberger... in the great fork of Rappahannock River... on Buttock Run on the east side thereof... Richard Nall's line... (signed) Joseph (I) Cotton, Katherine (C) Cotton. Wit: Samll. Furgeson, Jos. Bloodworth, Henry Franklyn, Alexr. McQueen. 26 9ber [Nov.] 1742. Acknowledged by Joseph Cotton. Catharine wife of Joseph relinquished her right of dower. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 7, Dorman, pg. 40].
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