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John Taylor to Robert Eaton & Martin Palmer

1 April 1815 · ODB 15/113

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
1 April 1815
From
John Taylor
To
Robert Eaton; Martin Palmer
Land
  1. Tract 1: 50 acres
    Neighbors: William Palmer; Martin Palmer
Earlier title
purchased from William Faucett & wife & John Thompson. Taylor sold land at auction 22 Mar 1815 undivided two fifths interest 125 acres on waters of Eno adj Martin Palmer, William Palmer, Lindley of which Robert Thompson died siezed, descended to his children John Thompson, Elizabeth Faucett, Sally Clark, Thomas Thompson & Richard Thompson William Faucet & wife Elizabeth Faucett to Eaton 1 Aug 1814 , John Thompson to Eaton 28 Feb 1815
Citation
ODB 15/113
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 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (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 15 (look for ODB 15/113). Our record above is drawn from it.

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