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Orange County Indexed

Josiah Turner & Susanna Turner to Thomas Ruffin

28 May 1813 · ODB 21/250

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 May 1813
From
Josiah Turner; Susanna Turner
To
Thomas Ruffin
Land
  1. Tract 1: 118.5 acres, bounded by lot 2
    Roads and landmarks: main road to Hillsborough; lot 2
Earlier title
being one of the lots formerly 400 acres belonging to William Courtney deceased per partition by Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, the lot of Susannah
Citation
ODB 21/250
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 40011, “Record of Deeds, 1824-1828, Vols. 21, 22” (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

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 21 (look for ODB 21/250). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

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