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Orange County Indexed

Joshua Jeffers to William Ward trustee

5 September 1842 · ODB 29/605

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
5 September 1842
From
Joshua Jeffers
To
William Ward
Acting as
trustee
Land
250 acres
Waterways
waters of Quicks Creek
Neighbors
Andrew McCauley; John Barned
Citation
ODB 29/605
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 1470
  • Later title: ODB 9/57 (Luke Pendergrass)
  • Later title: ODB 30/324 (Joshua Jeffers)
  • Later title: ODB 31/167 (James McClure)

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 29/605). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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