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Henry Day to Jonathan P Sneed & Thomas N S Hargis & Laurance V Hargis

30 October 1817 · ODB 16/106

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
30 October 1817
From
Henry Day
To
Jonathan P Sneed; Thomas N S Hargis; Laurance V Hargis
Land
  1. First tract: 250 acres
    Neighbors: John Thompson; Estate of Andrew Patton; C Pollock
  2. Second tract: 120 acres
    Waterways: waters of Back Creek
    Neighbors: Thomas Thompson
  3. Third tract: 50 acres
    Waterways: waters of Mill Creek
Citation
ODB 16/106
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 420, 500 and 5000 acres, figures 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 16 (look for ODB 16/106). Our record above is drawn from it.

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