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Richard Browning & Sophey Browning to Frederick Fonville

8 January 1817 · ODB 16/20

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
8 January 1817
From
Richard Browning; Sophey Browning
To
Frederick Fonville
Land
  1. First tract: measure not given
    Waterways: waters of Stony Creek; waters of Deep Creek
    Roads and landmarks: Great Road from James Faucett to Fayetteville
  2. Second tract: measure not given
    Neighbors: Fonvielle; Hardy Hurdle
    Roads and landmarks: road leading to Fayetteville
  3. Held back from the sale: Angel Robb's Dower
Citation
ODB 16/20
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 44 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 16 (look for ODB 16/20). Our record above is drawn from it.

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