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Ashby Dunagan to Edward Wortham

16 January 1807 · ODB 13/77

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
16 January 1807
From
Ashby Dunagan
To
Edward Wortham
Land
  1. Tract 1: 100 acres
    Waterways: on S Fork of Little River
    Neighbors: Dunagan
    Roads and landmarks: Perkins' Ford
Earlier title
remainder of 330 acres Granville to Thomas Perkins 6 Dec 1761
Citation
ODB 13/77
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: Gv622, to Thomas Perkins, 6 December 1761, 360 acres, on S Fork of Little River, adj Robert Jones
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 97-K
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 1189
  • Proved at the February 1808 court, 23 February 1808 (OCPQS 7/374)

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 13/77). Our record above is drawn from it.

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