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Orange County Indexed

George Guess to William Laws

24 November 1815 · ODB 15/321

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 November 1815
From
George Guess
To
William Laws
Land
  1. Tract 1: 53 acres
    Waterways: on Big Branch
    Neighbors: Umstead; Laws; Guess
    Roads and landmarks: mill path
  2. Tract 2: 85 acres
    Neighbors: Laws; Guess; Veazey; George Lewis deceased
    Roads and landmarks: road
Citation
ODB 15/321
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 15/321). Our record above is drawn from it.

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