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Orange County Indexed

William Burch to Joseph Hicks

8 March 1832 · ODB 29/108

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
8 March 1832
From
William Burch
To
Joseph Hicks
Land
  1. Tract 1: whereon my mother Lucy Burch now lives
    Waterways: waters of S Hico Creek
    Neighbors: John Wheeley now Thomas Gains
  2. Held back from the sale: 50 acres
Earlier title
John McMurray to John Wheely
Citation
ODB 29/108
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 40015, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1844, Vols. 29, 30” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 50 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 29 (look for ODB 29/108). Our record above is drawn from it.

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