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Orange County Indexed

John L Kirk to Melchi McDaniel

31 May 1816 · ODB 15/384

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
31 May 1816
From
John L Kirk
To
Melchi McDaniel
Land
500 acres
Waterways
waters of Cane Creek
Neighbors
William Hopson Thomas Cates; John Cates
Citation
ODB 15/384
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 15/384). Our record above is drawn from it.

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