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Orange County Indexed

Robert William Ussery to Robert Dickens

6 July 1770 · ODB 2/5

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
6 July 1770
From
Robert William Ussery
To
Robert Dickens
Land
  1. Tract 1: 640 acres, where he now lives
    Waterways: on Mayo
Also conveyed
4 hogsheads of tobacco now at his house; sundry other articles as per annexed schedule
Enslaved people named
Jack; Rachel; Jenney
Citation
ODB 2/5
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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 2 (look for ODB 2/5). Our record above is drawn from it.

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