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Thomas Hardin Perkins & Mary M Perkins & Nicholas Perkins to David Ray

14 September 1816 · ODB 15/444

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
14 September 1816
From
Thomas Hardin Perkins; Mary M Perkins; Nicholas Perkins
To
David Ray
Land
  1. Tract 1: 1150 acres
    Waterways: both sides of Little Alamance Creek
    Neighbors: Cook
    Roads and landmarks: Granville's line; an Old Road; a branch; Old Road
Earlier title
on 17 Aug 1816 William O Neal Perkins, Nicholas Perkins the younger & wife Polly Harden Perkins deeded their two thirds undivided interest in the above tract to David Ray, this deed is for the one third undivided interest of the grantors
Citation
ODB 15/444
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 15/444). Our record above is drawn from it.

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