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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to William Keelin

29 November 1803 · ODB 11/166

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
29 November 1803
From
North Carolina
To
William Keelin
Land
500 acres
Neighbors
Benjamin Wheeley; John Jones; Thomas Person; Breeze
Roads and landmarks
Caswell County line; Great Road
Citation
ODB 11/166
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 40006, “Record of Deeds, 1803-1807, Vols. 11, 12” (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

  • State grant file: Ofile 2568

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 11 (look for ODB 11/166). Our record above is drawn from it.

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