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Bird Wagstaff by trustee to Elizabeth Burton

January 1831 · ODB 24/385

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
January 1831
From
Bird Wagstaff
To
Elizabeth Burton
Acting as
trustee
Land
315 acres
Waterways
waters of Haw River
Neighbors
John Stockard; Eli McDaniel; Robert Hunter
Citation
ODB 24/385
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).

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 13/18

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 24 (look for ODB 24/385). Our record above is drawn from it.

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