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Orange County Indexed

Fielding Leathers to Henry Forrest

1 April 1814 · ODB 15/26

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 April 1814
From
Fielding Leathers
To
Henry Forrest
Land
283 acres
Waterways
waters of Ellerbe Creek; on Dutchmans Branch
Neighbors
Glenn; Forrest
Roads and landmarks
the Ridge Path
Citation
ODB 15/26
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 15/26). Our record above is drawn from it.

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