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Orange County Indexed

Isaac Jeffreys to Freeman Leath trustee for James Kerr

21 January 1842 · ODB 29/431

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
21 January 1842
From
Isaac Jeffreys
To
Freeman Leath
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. First tract: 150 acres, on which I now live
    Neighbors: Evan Jeffries; John Tapscott; Isaac Cantrell
  2. Second tract: 122 acres
    Neighbors: Isaac Griffith; William Lackey; George Martin
Earlier title
being tract given to me by my father Evan Jeffries
Citation
ODB 29/431
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 29/431). Our record above is drawn from it.

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