Benjamin Shearman to Sophear Lewis

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

16 March 1813

From

Benjamin Shearman

To

Sophear Lewis

Land

1. Tract 1: 150 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River

Citation

ODB 14/561
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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 November 1813 court, 23 November 1813 (OCPQS 8/511)

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 14/561). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.