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Orange County Indexed

David Ray to John L Woods

10 July 1817 · ODB 16/254

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 July 1817
From
David Ray
To
John L Woods
Land
277.5 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Neighbors
James Wilkinson
Earlier title
Ralph Williams to David Williams 11 Nov 1785|David Williams to Robert Ray 10 May 1799|Robert Ray to David Ray 23 Aug 1810
Citation
ODB 16/254
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 16/254). Our record above is drawn from it.

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