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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Bradford to James Nicholson

30 March 1814 · ODB 15/56

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
30 March 1814
From
Thomas Bradford
To
James Nicholson
Land
  1. First tract: 203 acres
    Waterways: waters of Haw River
    Roads and landmarks: Peach Orchard
  2. Second tract: 50 acres
    Waterways: waters of Haw River
    Neighbors: John Robeson; Armstrong
Earlier title
Robert Tate to Thomas Bradford Sr
Citation
ODB 15/56
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 253 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 15/56). Our record above is drawn from it.

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