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Orange County Indexed

Joseph Barbee to Mordicai Sears

4 December 1832 · ODB 25/277

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 December 1832
From
Joseph Barbee
To
Mordicai Sears
Land
299.29 acres
Waterways
both sides of Crooked Creek; on New Hope Creek
Neighbors
John; Henry Moring; Josiah Atkins
Citation
ODB 25/277
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 25 (look for ODB 25/277). Our record above is drawn from it.

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