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John Bason to Adam Sharp

22 January 1808 · ODB 14/548

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 January 1808
From
John Bason
To
Adam Sharp
Land
  1. First tract: 137.5 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Neighbors: Henry Trolinger; Long
  2. Second tract: 65 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River; on Pine Branch
    Neighbors: Jane Bryan; Joseph Baker; James Anderson
    Roads and landmarks: Main Road from Hillsborough to Salisbury
Earlier title
first tract bought of Peggy Server & others
Citation
ODB 14/548
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 202.5 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 14/548). Our record above is drawn from it.

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