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Thomas Holt to Robert Mebane trustee

17 April 1832 · ODB 27/180

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
17 April 1832
From
Thomas Holt
To
Robert Mebane
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. Tract 1: 309 acres
    Waterways: waters of Stinking Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: Holt; Michael Shofner; William Fogleman; William Coble; John Fogleman; David Neese
    Roads and landmarks: old trading road; Guilford County line
Earlier title
four pieces of land all joined now in one tract, one from his father Isaac Holt 265 acres, one from Ellick Thomas 28 acres, two pieces of Peter Lynn one 12 acres, the other 4 acres
Citation
ODB 27/180
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 40014, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1840, Vols. 27, 28” (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

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 27 (look for ODB 27/180). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.
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