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Orange County Indexed

George Johnston to Andrew Murdock

27 November 1804 · ODB 12/23

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
27 November 1804
From
George Johnston
To
Andrew Murdock
Land
1 acre
Waterways
on McAdams Creek
Neighbors
Murdock
Roads and landmarks
Murdock's mill
Citation
ODB 12/23
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 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

  • Proved at the August 1805 court (minutes OCPQS 7/79; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 7/60)

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 12/23). Our record above is drawn from it.

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