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Adam Fumo & William Fumo by Marshall John Spence West to John Williams

25 June 1806 · ODB 12/289

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
25 June 1806
From
Adam Fumo; William Fumo
To
John Williams
Acting as
Marshall John Spence West
Land
  1. Tract 1: 150 acres
  2. Tract 2: 300 acres
    Waterways: head of Haw Branch; on branch
    Neighbors: John Talton; John Williams; Providence Carter
    Roads and landmarks: road
  3. Tract 3: 100 acres
    Waterways: waters of Haw River
    Neighbors: John Patton; Alexander Kirkpatrick; James Baker
  4. Tract 4: 50 acres
    Waterways: waters of Haw River
    Neighbors: James Thompson; James Baker
Earlier title
from John Thompson to Bracken
Citation
ODB 12/289
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 150 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 12/289). Our record above is drawn from it.

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