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Orange County Indexed

Thomas D Watts to George Laws

28 April 1831 · ODB 24/408

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 April 1831
From
Thomas D Watts
To
George Laws
Land
63.75 acres
Waterways
waters of Forresters Creek
Neighbors
James Jackson; Kelly; Elizabeth Jackson; Ruth Jackson
Citation
ODB 24/408
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 13/17
  • Later title: ODB 23/563 (Thomas D Watts)
  • Later title: ODB 29/8 (James Jackson)

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 24/408). Our record above is drawn from it.

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