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Henry M Ballard & Willis Ballard to James Harward

27 February 1837 · ODB 27/486

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
27 February 1837
From
Henry M Ballard; Willis Ballard
To
James Harward
Land
545 acres
Waterways
both sides of Northeast Creek; on New Hope Creek
Neighbors
Elias Herndon; Josiah Clifton; Josiah Atkins; Joseph Fennel? James Moring; Mordecai Barbee; Lewis Atkins; Polly Herndon
Earlier title
William Ballard to Henry Ballard
Citation
ODB 27/486
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 27/486). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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