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Deed proved: Hugh Mulholland & ?????? to John Sharp

26 August 1796 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Deed, Hugh Mulholland & ?????? to John Sharp, proved by Wm Ray.

Kind of business
Deed proved
Court
August 1796 term, 26 August 1796
Grantor
Hugh Mulholland & ??????
Grantee
John Sharp
Instrument
Deed
Proved by
by the oath of Wm Ray
The deed
Deed Book 5, page 490 →
Samuel Gattis to John Gattis Sr (our deed record)

Reading note: A second grantor was unreadable. The same book reference ODB 5/490 was attached to another transaction in this term; source references were preserved. The unnamed second grantor was wholly unreadable; no person row was invented.

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

  • Minute book 5, page 130
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the August 1796 term
  • 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 30003, “County Court Minutes, 1795–1804” (State Archives film).
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