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Orange County Indexed

Abner Massey to Wyatt Ballard

12 December 1803 · ODB 15/180

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
12 December 1803
From
Abner Massey
To
Wyatt Ballard
Land
550 acres
Waterways
on Crooked Creek; on New Hope Creek
Neighbors
Parks; Bragg; Collins
Citation
ODB 15/180
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 15/180). Our record above is drawn from it.

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