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Stephen H McCracken to Wilson Watson

26 March 1831 · ODB 24/401

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 March 1831
From
Stephen H McCracken
To
Wilson Watson
Land
  1. Tract 1: 25 acres, whereon Stephen McCracken now lives
    Neighbors: Thomas McCracken Sr
    Roads and landmarks: great road leading to Trolingers Bridge on Haw River
  2. Tract 2: 20 acres
    Neighbors: Patton; Mary Barker
    Roads and landmarks: road
  3. Tract 3: 18 acres
    Neighbors: Paten Dockery
Citation
ODB 24/401
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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 13/16

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 24/401). Our record above is drawn from it.

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