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Orange County Indexed

David Craig estate by Sheriff to Abraham Craig

25 September 1817 · ODB 16/230

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
25 September 1817
From
David Craig
To
Abraham Craig
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
31.5 acres
Neighbors
Polly Craig; Nancy Murdock
Citation
ODB 16/230
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 16/230). Our record above is drawn from it.

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