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Sarah Shofner to Joseph Smith & William Smith

21 August 1817 · ODB 16/87

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 August 1817
From
Sarah Shofner
To
Joseph Smith; William Smith
Share conveyed
undivided interest
Land
  1. First tract: 100 acres
    Neighbors: J Holt; Daniel Albright; Anthony Thompson
    Roads and landmarks: Cape Fear Road
  2. Second tract: measure not given
    Neighbors: Smith; John Clapp; Thompson; Tobias Smith
Citation
ODB 16/87
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 16/87). Our record above is drawn from it.

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