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Thomas Cate Sr to Thomas Roberson trustee & James Moore trustee & John Cate trustee & William Moore trustee & Henry Edwards trustee & John Martin trustee & Martin Cheek trustee & William Wood trustee & Allen Edwards trustee & Caleb Lindsay trustee & Atha Lindsay trustee & William Ball trustee & school

26 July 1809 · ODB 16/148

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
26 July 1809
From
Thomas Cate Sr
To
Thomas Roberson; James Moore; John Cate; William Moore; Henry Edwards; John Martin; Martin Cheek; William Wood; Allen Edwards; Caleb Lindsay; Atha Lindsay; William Ball; school
Acting as
trustee
Land
3 acres
Waterways
waters of Collins Creek
Citation
ODB 16/148
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 16 (look for ODB 16/148). Our record above is drawn from it.

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