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Deed proved: Mrs. Nancy Crosbie & Bryan Crosbie to Nathaniel Rochester

May 1779 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Right of Dower in land sold by her husband Bryan Crosbie, Mrs. Nancy Crosbie & Bryan Crosbie to Nathaniel Rochester, proved by privately examined by Wm. McCauley, Esq.|Reg..

Kind of business
Deed proved
Court
May 1779 term
Grantor
Mrs. Nancy Crosbie; Bryan Crosbie
Grantee
Nathaniel Rochester
Instrument
right of Dower in land sold by her husband Bryan Crosbie
Proved by
privately examined by Wm. McCauley, Esq.|Reg.
Justices
Wm. McCauley

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Folio and page 34-68
  • Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 35 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
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