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Lewis Kirk to Richard Cate

13 August 1785 · ODB 2/176

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 August 1785
From
Lewis Kirk
To
Richard Cate
Land
10 acres
Waterways
waters of Cane Creek; on Haw River
Citation
ODB 2/176
See the deed book page at the Register of Deeds →
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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

  • Granville grant: Gv200, to Thomas Lindley, 11 May 1757, 356 acres, on S side of Cane Creek, on N side of Haw River, above the Piney Mountain
  • Secretary of State land grant: SSLG 95-J
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 522
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 932
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/416
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/518

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 2/176). Our record above is drawn from it.

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