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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to John Waldraven

13 March 1780 · ODB 2/339

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
13 March 1780
From
North Carolina
To
John Waldraven
Land
150 acres
Waterways
both sides of Scrub Creek; on Quaker Creek
Neighbors
Doherty Allen; Benjamin Roney
Citation
ODB 2/339
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 886
  • Later title: ODB 4/21 (John McMurty)
  • Later title: ODB 5/35 (Isaac Dorris)
  • Later title: ODB 5/497 (Augustin Dishon)

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 2/339). Our record above is drawn from it.

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