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John Riggs estate by Sheriff to John Latta

1 December 1814 · ODB 14/739

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
1 December 1814
From
John Riggs estate
To
John Latta
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
  1. First tract: 200 acres
    Waterways: on S Fork of Little River
    Neighbors: Joseph Woods; Robert Walker; George Riggs; John Riggs; James Riggs
  2. Second tract: 66 acres
    Waterways: on S Fork of Little River
    Neighbors: John Neely; William Jameson; Joseph Woods
Earlier title
part of tract devised George Riggs , George Riggs to John Riggs
Citation
ODB 14/739
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 14/739). Our record above is drawn from it.

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