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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Davis Grisham

16 July 1795 · ODB 10/53

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
16 July 1795
From
North Carolina
To
Davis Grisham
Land
196 acres
Waterways
waters of Ellerbe Creek
Neighbors
William Pickett; Henry Bunch; Mai Patterson
Citation
ODB 10/53
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 2095

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 10/53). Our record above is drawn from it.

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