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Orange County Indexed

James Williams to Matthew Patton

28 October 1806 · ODB 12/314

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 October 1806
From
James Williams
To
Matthew Patton
Land
73 acres
Waterways
on Varnels Creek
Neighbors
Lindley; James Williams
Roads and landmarks
Great Road; the Quaker Road
Citation
ODB 12/314
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

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 12/314). Our record above is drawn from it.

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