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Orange County Indexed

William Hastings to James Coglin

20 April 1794 · ODB 14/376

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 April 1794
From
William Hastings
To
James Coglin
Land
111 acres
Waterways
waters of New Hope Creek
Neighbors
Elmore Handley
Earlier title
NC to Hastings
Citation
ODB 14/376
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

  • Proved at the February 1813 court (minutes OCPQS 8/435; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 8/434)

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 14/376). Our record above is drawn from it.

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