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John Oliver & Mary Oliver to Peter Courtney

21 June 1768 · ODB 2/492

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 June 1768
From
John Oliver; Mary Oliver
To
Peter Courtney
Land
  1. Tract 1: 226 poles
    Waterways: waters of Great Alamance Creek
    Neighbors: George Fogleman
    Roads and landmarks: a hill
Earlier title
Henry McCulloh & Joseph Robson & Joseph Wallace to Oliver
Citation
ODB 2/492
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 kind of instrument is our best reading.

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

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 2/492). Our record above is drawn from it.

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