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Matthew McCauley to George Johnston

15 April 1806 · ODB 13/106

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale of goods or livestock
Date
15 April 1806
From
Matthew McCauley
To
George Johnston
Also conveyed
my half of the large pine trees fit for sawing W from mouth of the Little Creek to Samuel Allen's line & all that is W of Hardy Morgan's wagon Path that leads Into the Chapel Road; also half the sweet gums good for sawing on the low grounds of the Creek on Hardy Morgan’s land; also large pine trees fit for sawing on 140 acres called the Patterson Tract adj Christopher Barbee.
Citation
ODB 13/106
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Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 40007, “Record of Deeds, 1807-1815, Vols. 13, 14” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 140 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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 7/364

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 13 (look for ODB 13/106). Our record above is drawn from it.

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