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Jesse McCuistin to Benjamin Hurdle trustee

31 August 1841 · ODB 29/364

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
31 August 1841
From
Jesse McCuistin
To
Benjamin Hurdle
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. Tract 1: 4.5 acres, High Falls
    Waterways: mouth of Stony Creek; on Haw River
  2. Tract 2: 0.25 acres
    Neighbors: McCuistin
    Roads and landmarks: road; corn crib; barn
  3. Tract 3: 0.33 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Neighbors: Isaac Albright
    Roads and landmarks: road
Also conveyed
4 beds & furniture, 1 sideboard, 1 clock, 2 dining tables, 2 looking glasses, 1 dozen fine chairs, 3 dressing tables, all household & kitchen furniture, 4 head of cattle, 3 sows & pigs, 1 sorrel horse, all the notes & book accounts, all money owing from the High Falls Manufacturing Company
Citation
ODB 29/364
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

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 29/364). Our record above is drawn from it.

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