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Orange County Indexed

George Carrington by Sheriff to Sterling Harris

22 June 1816 · ODB 16/65

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
22 June 1816
From
George Carrington
To
Sterling Harris
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
909 acres
Waterways
on Eno River; on Mill Creek
Neighbors
Benjamin Forrest; Josiah Forrest; Johnston; Wallace; Clinton
Citation
ODB 16/65
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 16/65). Our record above is drawn from it.

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