Skip to content

Orange County Indexed

William Hooper to University of North Carolina

15 January 1838 · ODB 29/115

The deed

Kind of deed
Town lot sale
Date
15 January 1838
From
William Hooper
To
University of North Carolina
Land
  1. Tract 1: lot 19, in Chapel Hill
  2. Tract 2: lot 20, in Chapel Hill
Earlier title
being residence at the time of his death of late Rev Dr Joseph Caldwell, devised to William Hooper
Citation
ODB 29/115
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 2 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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 29 (look for ODB 29/115). Our record above is drawn from it.

Two mice reading back to back against a leaf, with the hand-lettered words Friends of the Orange County Public Library
Illustration by Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, gifted to the Friends 2026