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Edward Turner & Elizabeth Turner to Thomas Hart

29 June 1776 · ODB 2/120

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
29 June 1776
From
Edward Turner; Elizabeth Turner
To
Thomas Hart
Land
  1. First tract: 30 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River; mouth of McGowans Creek
  2. Second tract: 30 acres
    Waterways: on Eno River
    Roads and landmarks: Thomas Hart's yard
Citation
ODB 2/120
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 40001, “Record of Deeds, 1755-178[5?], Vols. 1, 2” (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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/163

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 2 (look for ODB 2/120). Our record above is drawn from it.

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