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Orange County Indexed

Jessy Shy to Jesse Towell

20 November 1801 · ODB 10/166

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 November 1801
From
Jessy Shy
To
Jesse Towell
Land
177 acres
Waterways
on Haw River
Earlier title
NC to Robert Morrison|Morrison to John Shy
Citation
ODB 10/166
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
A page can hold several deeds, and a long deed can run onto the next page.
Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (State Archives film).

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

  • Earlier title: OWB C/58
  • In the will books: Will of John Shy (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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: Orange County Deed Book 10 (look for ODB 10/166). Our record above is drawn from it.

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