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Deed proved: John Dennis & Mary his wife to Isaac Dennis

February 1798 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

Deed, John Dennis & Mary his wife to Isaac Dennis, acknowledged in court.

Kind of business
Deed proved
Court
February 1798 term
Grantor
John Dennis & Mary his wife
Grantee
Isaac Dennis
Instrument
Deed
Proved by
ack’d
Justices
Zephaniah Harvey; Davis Long
Places
Hancock County; Georgia
The deed
Deed Book 6, page 402 →
John Dennis & Mary Dennis to Isaac Dennis (our deed record)

Reading note: Acknowledgment before Georgia officials was largely unreadable; Mary was named as John Dennis’s wife.

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 366
  • Transcribed by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: his transcription of the February 1798 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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