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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Alexander Mebane Sr

28 October 1782 · ODB 23/207

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
28 October 1782
From
North Carolina
To
Alexander Mebane Sr
Land
618 acres
Waterways
on Back Creek
Neighbors
Thomas Lynch; Mr Lathbury; John Walker
Citation
ODB 23/207
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 40012, “Record of Deeds, 1827-1832, Vols. 23, 24” (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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1246
  • Same deed also recorded at: ODB 2/296

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 23 (look for ODB 23/207). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.
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