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Orange County Indexed

Sterling Harris to Duncan Cameron

29 December 1808 · ODB 13/268

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
29 December 1808
From
Sterling Harris
To
Duncan Cameron
Share conveyed
undivided seventh of Nathaniel Harris' interest
Land
  1. Tract 1: 350 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River
    Neighbors: Richmond Harris; Hugh Cain; Duncan Cameron
Earlier title
Edward Harris devised to sons Nathaniel Harris & Willie Harris land sold by Sheriff as land of James Munro
Citation
ODB 13/268
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

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 13/268). Our record above is drawn from it.

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