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Orange County Indexed

David Faucett to William Faucett

25 January 1812 · ODB 16/226

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
25 January 1812
From
David Faucett
To
William Faucett
Land
108 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River; on Mill Branch; Nelsons Spring Branch
Neighbors
James Clark; Armstrong; Lapsley
Roads and landmarks
the Great Road; Nelsons Spring
Citation
ODB 16/226
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 16/226). Our record above is drawn from it.

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