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Orange County Indexed

John Lewis to Burroughs Cheek trustee

28 November 1837 · ODB 27/525A

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
28 November 1837
From
John Lewis
To
Burroughs Cheek
Acting as
trustee
Land
in Chapel Hill
Enslaved people named
Thomas
Citation
ODB 27/525A
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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 27 (look for ODB 27/525A). Our record above is drawn from it.

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