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James Morrow to Jonathan Lindley

22 February 1806 · ODB 12/255

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 February 1806
From
James Morrow
To
Jonathan Lindley
Land
  1. First tract: 226 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Neighbors: Peter Foust; George Morrow; Andrew Morrow
  2. Second tract: 242 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Neighbors: Jesse Towell
    Roads and landmarks: stone heap
Citation
ODB 12/255
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 468 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 12/255). Our record above is drawn from it.

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