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Alfred Moore estate & Sarah L Moore by trustee to William Cain & Edmund Strudwick

28 February 1841 · ODB 29/278

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 February 1841
From
Alfred Moore estate; Sarah L Moore
To
William Cain; Edmund Strudwick
Acting as
trustee
Share conveyed
undivided half
Land
  1. Tract 1: 2560 acres
    Waterways: Obion River
    Neighbors: Martin Armstrong
  2. Tract 2: 1097 acres
    Waterways: Obion River
Citation
ODB 29/278
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 5000 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 29/278). Our record above is drawn from it.

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