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Orange County Indexed

Edward Robson to Edmund Pitt

21 February 1817 · ODB 16/38

The deed

Kind of deed
Town lot sale
Date
21 February 1817
From
Edward Robson
To
Edmund Pitt
Share conveyed
Half
Land
  1. Tract 1: in Chapel Hill, bounded by lot 10
    Neighbors: Thomas Taylor
    Roads and landmarks: Franklin Street
Earlier title
upper half of lot from John Adams to Robson
Citation
ODB 16/38
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 16/38). Our record above is drawn from it.

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