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Orange County Indexed

John J Carrington to William Parrish

20 December 1819 · ODB 19/112

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 December 1819
From
John J Carrington
To
William Parrish
Land
  1. Tract 1: 501 acres
    Waterways: head of Mountain Creek
    Neighbors: William Cain; estate of John Carrington
Earlier title
being formerly two tracts, Granville to William Vernal _ Jan 1761 , Samuel Turrentine to John J Carrington 2 Aug 1815 399 acres , and the other tract being part of NC to John Langley 197 acres 1782 No 446 , Herbert Sims to John J Carrington 25 Aug 1818
Citation
ODB 19/112
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 40010, “Record of Deeds, 1821-1824, Vols. 19, 20” (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

  • Granville grant: Gv453, to William Varnal, 28 January 1761, 399 acres, on a branch of Little River
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 101-M
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2425
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2526
  • Earlier title: ODB 14/719

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 19 (look for ODB 19/112). Our record above is drawn from it.

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