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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to William H Merritt

10 June 1840 · ODB 29/354

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
10 June 1840
From
North Carolina
To
William H Merritt
Land
5.5 acres
Waterways
waters of Cub Creek
Neighbors
George W Purefoy; Matthew McCauley
Roads and landmarks
Chatham County line
Citation
ODB 29/354
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).

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

  • State grant file: Ofile 2953

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 29/354). Our record above is drawn from it.

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