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Orange County Indexed

Mary W Burke to George M Johnston & Eliza Johnston

1832 · ODB 25/63

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1832
From
Mary W Burke
To
George M Johnston; Eliza Johnston
Land
  1. Tract 1: 100 acres
    Neighbors: Edmund Herndon; Zachariah Herndon; Alfred M Holloway
    Roads and landmarks: Bilbo tract
Also conveyed
1 sorrel horse, 1 gray horse, 1 young Arabian colt, 1 ox cart, all my stock of hogs & sheep, one still & cap, 1 bed & furniture
Enslaved people named
Tapley
Citation
ODB 25/63
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: Only the year 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 13/119

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 25/63). Our record above is drawn from it.

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