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Orange County Indexed

Robert Kimbro by Sheriff to Thomas Compton

20 September 1809 · ODB 13/282

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
20 September 1809
From
Robert Kimbro
To
Thomas Compton
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
610 acres
Neighbors
McMinimy; Hudson Berry; Thomas Redding
Roads and landmarks
Caswell County line
Citation
ODB 13/282
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 13/282). Our record above is drawn from it.

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