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Samuel Carson by Sheriff to John Cabe & William Cabe

24 May 1808 · ODB 13/157

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
24 May 1808
From
Samuel Carson
To
John Cabe; William Cabe
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
  1. First tract: 101 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River
  2. Second tract: 93 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River
    Neighbors: Catherine McVey; Whitted; Neal
Earlier title
Granville to Alexander Carson father of Samuel 14 Jul 1760
Citation
ODB 13/157
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 40007, “Record of Deeds, 1807-1815, Vols. 13, 14” (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

  • Granville grant: Gv332, to Alexander Carson, 14 July 1760, 108 acres, on both side of Eno River, adj bents of river
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 86-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1579
  • Proved at the May 1808 court, 26 May 1808 (OCPQS 7/426)

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 13/157). Our record above is drawn from it.

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