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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to John Miness

2 December 1783 · ODB 2/485

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
2 December 1783
From
North Carolina
To
John Miness
Land
400 acres
Waterways
on a branch of Seven Mile Creek
Neighbors
Witty
Citation
ODB 2/485
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 884
  • Same deed also recorded at: ODB 2/396

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 2/485). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.
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