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Orange County Indexed

Thomas H Taylor to Abraham Craig

4 September 1817 · ODB 16/163

The deed

Kind of deed
Town lot sale
Date
4 September 1817
From
Thomas H Taylor
To
Abraham Craig
Land
lot 10, in Chapel Hill
Neighbors
Pleasant Henderson; McCauley; Thompson
Roads and landmarks
Franklin Street
Citation
ODB 16/163
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 abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 16/163). Our record above is drawn from it.

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