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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Benjamin Bower

13 March 1819 · ODB 17/260

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
13 March 1819
From
North Carolina
To
Benjamin Bower
Land
91 acres
Waterways
waters of Little Cane Creek
Neighbors
Thomas Brewer; Stephen Justus; Frederick Reeves
Citation
ODB 17/260
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 40009, “Record of Deeds, 1818-1821, Vols. 17, 18” (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

  • State grant file: Ofile 2789A

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 17 (look for ODB 17/260). Our record above is drawn from it.

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