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Orange County Indexed

Willis Cain to Abner Lewis

6 November 1838 · ODB 28/304

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 November 1838
From
Willis Cain
To
Abner Lewis
Share conveyed
undivided third of
Land
  1. Tract 1: 88 acres
    Waterways: waters of Eno River
    Neighbors: William Lewis
Citation
ODB 28/304
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 28/304). Our record above is drawn from it.

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