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Orange County Indexed

Edwin M Holt to Michael Holt

1 January 1840 · ODB 29/58

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 January 1840
From
Edwin M Holt
To
Michael Holt
Land
  1. Tract 1: 83 acres
    Waterways: on S Fork of Stinking Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: Michael Holt; Daniel Albright; Coble; Peter Poor
    Roads and landmarks: his Shaddy Tract
Earlier title
same being part of tract devised by George Troxler to Briscoe Warren & wife Adaline & to Francis Rich wife of Henry Rich & divided between them by Clerk, deeded by Warren to Edwin M Holt
Citation
ODB 29/58
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 29/58). Our record above is drawn from it.

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