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John Wood to William Cain Jr

30 November 1817 · ODB 16/353

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
30 November 1817
From
John Wood
To
William Cain Jr
Share conveyed
one seventh undivided interest
Land
  1. Tract 1: Benjamin Forrest Place
  2. Tract 2: The Manning Tract
  3. Tract 3: Eno River Quarter Plantation
Also conveyed
John Woods's share of personal estate of John Cain deceased
Earlier title
land acquired by Woods as heir of John Cain & heir of Margaret Woods deceased
Citation
ODB 16/353
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 16/353). Our record above is drawn from it.

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