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Orange County Indexed

William Stagg to Rankin McKee

25 March 1816 · ODB 15/287

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
25 March 1816
From
William Stagg
To
Rankin McKee
Land
  1. First tract: 200 acres
    Waterways: on Lick Creek of Flat River
    Neighbors: Robert Berry Sr; Samuel Wilson
  2. Second tract: 50 acres
    Waterways: fork of Turkey Branch; fork of Cattail Branch
    Neighbors: Charles Roundtree
Citation
ODB 15/287
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 250 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 15/287). Our record above is drawn from it.

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