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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Pleasant to George Foust

21 August 1816 · ODB 15/356

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 August 1816
From
Thomas Pleasant
To
George Foust
Land
310 acres
Waterways
on Haw River
Neighbors
Joseph Clendenin; Thomas Whitted; Joshua Woods; Woody
Citation
ODB 15/356
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 15/356). Our record above is drawn from it.

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