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Orange County Indexed

John Woody to Lewis Hornaday

6 June 1829 · ODB 28/25

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 June 1829
From
John Woody
To
Lewis Hornaday
Land
270 acres
Waterways
on Haw River; on Marys Creek
Neighbors
Thomas Woody
Citation
ODB 28/25
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 28/25). Our record above is drawn from it.

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