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Orange County Indexed

James Ray to John Douglass & Mary Douglass

14 January 1814 · ODB 14/459

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
14 January 1814
From
James Ray
To
John Douglass; Mary Douglass
Land
96.5 acres
Waterways
on Little River; on Flat Branch
Neighbors
Murdock; Ray; Dixon
Citation
ODB 14/459
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 14/459). Our record above is drawn from it.

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