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Orange County Indexed

John Edwards to James Dennis

9 December 1805 · ODB 15/279

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 December 1805
From
John Edwards
To
James Dennis
Land
200 acres
Waterways
on Eno River; waters of Ellerbe Creek; on Markhams Branch
Neighbors
Charles Strayhorn
Roads and landmarks
Raleigh Road
Citation
ODB 15/279
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 15/279). Our record above is drawn from it.

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