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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Scarlett to James Strayhorn

24 September 1812 · ODB 14/365

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 September 1812
From
Samuel Scarlett
To
James Strayhorn
Land
  1. Tract 1: 198.5 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River
Earlier title
part of tract where he now lives of 205 acres, 7 acres previously sold to James Strayhorn & William McMillan for a tilt-hammer, adj Scarlet, Morgan now John Flintham, Thomas Redding
Citation
ODB 14/365
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 14 (look for ODB 14/365). Our record above is drawn from it.

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