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Orange County Indexed

Armour King to Edward Benson

7 December 1814 · ODB 15/79

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
7 December 1814
From
Armour King
To
Edward Benson
Land
150 acres
Waterways
waters of Scrub Creek; on Otter Creek
Neighbors
William Wilkins; Augustine Dishon Sr
Earlier title
NC to James Roney 10 Aug 1797
Citation
ODB 15/79
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 15/79). Our record above is drawn from it.

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