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Orange County Indexed

McNemar Adams to Henry Hesse

14 October 1802 · ODB 10/300

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
14 October 1802
From
McNemar Adams
To
Henry Hesse
Land
200 acres
Waterways
on Stags Creek; on Back Creek
Neighbors
John Ward; McMinimy
Earlier title
NC to Ezekiel Chance 18 May 1789
Citation
ODB 10/300
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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

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 10/300). Our record above is drawn from it.

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