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Jacob May to Lemuel Curtes trustee

17 April 1834 · ODB 26/16

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
17 April 1834
From
Jacob May
To
Lemuel Curtes
Acting as
trustee
Land
134 acres
Waterways
on Gun Creek
Neighbors
Albright; Carter; Gibson
Citation
ODB 26/16
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 26 (look for ODB 26/16). Our record above is drawn from it.

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