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Nancy Holt & William Holt to Anderson Cate

10 December 1835 · ODB 28/11

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 December 1835
From
Nancy Holt; William Holt
To
Anderson Cate
Land
  1. First Lot: 94.5 acres, lot 6, bounded by lot 5
    Waterways: on Cane Creek
    Neighbors: John Workman; John Crutchfield; Walker & wife
    Roads and landmarks: the great road
  2. Second lot: 50 acres, lot 9, bounded by lot 8
    Neighbors: Allen Petty; Thomas Cate; John Crutchfield
Earlier title
part of tract which John Cate died seized of & on the moiety of said tract which descended to William Holt & wife Nancy
Citation
ODB 28/11
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 28 (look for ODB 28/11). Our record above is drawn from it.

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