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Orange County Indexed

William Marshall to Thomas Dixon

26 November 1814 · ODB 15/37

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 November 1814
From
William Marshall
To
Thomas Dixon
Land
  1. Tract 1: 21 acres
    Waterways: waters of Cane Creek
    Neighbors: McCulloh; John Dixon
Earlier title
part of Granville to Simon Dixon 15 Mar 1756 for 498 acres
Citation
ODB 15/37
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

  • Granville grant: Gv149, to Simon Dixon, 15 March 1756, 498 acres, on both sides of Cane Creek, on S side of Haw River, adj Henry Maynard, John Allen, McCulloh
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 89-C
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 312
  • Proved at the November 1814 court (OCPQS 8/642)

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 15/37). Our record above is drawn from it.

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