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Robert Dickens estate by executor to Richard Bennehan

11 August 1807 · ODB 13/19

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale by executor or administrator
Date
11 August 1807
From
Robert Dickens estate
To
Richard Bennehan
Acting as
executor
Share conveyed
undivided half
Land
  1. Tract 1: 222 acres
    Waterways: waters of Flat River
    Neighbors: Henry E McCulloh; Mrs Horton; Bennehan
    Roads and landmarks: Horton's Old Tract
Earlier title
Robert Dickens & William Wait were tenants in common
Citation
ODB 13/19
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 1490 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 13 (look for ODB 13/19). Our record above is drawn from it.

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