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Orange County Indexed

William Ward by executors to Stephen Ward

23 August 1808 · ODB 13/90

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 August 1808
From
William Ward
To
Stephen Ward
Acting as
executor
Land
153 acres
Waterways
on a branch of Cane Creek
Neighbors
John Hornaday
Roads and landmarks
Chatham County line
Earlier title
NC to William Ward
Citation
ODB 13/90
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 13/90). Our record above is drawn from it.

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