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Orange County Indexed

Robert Cate Sr to David Passmore

22 August 1805 · ODB 12/172

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 August 1805
From
Robert Cate Sr
To
David Passmore
Land
  1. First tract: 75 acres
    Waterways: on Marshalls Branch of Cane Creek
    Neighbors: Cates; Charles Kelley
  2. Second tract: 10 acres
    Waterways: on Marshalls Branch of Cane Creek; on branch
    Neighbors: Jesse Cates; Robert Cates
  3. Third tract: 15 acres
    Waterways: on Marshalls Branch of Cane Creek
    Neighbors: William Moore; Cates
    Roads and landmarks: Meeting House Road; cross path
Citation
ODB 12/172
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 100 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 12 (look for ODB 12/172). Our record above is drawn from it.

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