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Orange County Indexed

William Markham & Tabitha Markham to Sullivan Leigh

27 November 1832 · ODB 25/253

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
27 November 1832
From
William Markham; Tabitha Markham
To
Sullivan Leigh
Land
  1. Tract 1: 44 acres
    Waterways: waters of Third Fork of New Hope Creek
    Neighbors: Thomas Markham Sr; Josiah Claytor
Citation
ODB 25/253
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 40013, “Record of Deeds, 1831-1836, Vols. 25, 26” (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 13/242

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 25 (look for ODB 25/253). Our record above is drawn from it.

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