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Orange County Indexed

William Cain Jr to Henry Newton

23 February 1818 · ODB 16/337

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 February 1818
From
William Cain Jr
To
Henry Newton
Share conveyed
ninth part of
Land
  1. Tract 1: 156 acres
Earlier title
Isaac Newton conveyed to Cain 104 acres 21 Aug 1805 being his own & James Newton’s ninth part of undivided share of 472 acres, on waters of Little River which their father George Newton died seized & Mary Newton widow of George by same deed conveyed another 52 acres being William Newton's undivided ninth to secure to debt Cain authorized to sell land at any time after 25 Dec 1806, land sold 25 Mar 1810
Citation
ODB 16/337
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 16/337). Our record above is drawn from it.

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