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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Hart to William Austin

20 February 1780 · ODB 2/149

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
20 February 1780
From
Thomas Hart
To
William Austin
Land
87 acres
Waterways
head of Grays Creek
Neighbors
Hart
Earlier title
NC to Hart
Citation
ODB 2/149
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1057
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/221

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 2/149). Our record above is drawn from it.

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