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Orange County Indexed

James Moore to Thomas Davis

15 February 1785 · ODB 3/1

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
15 February 1785
From
James Moore
To
Thomas Davis
Land
3025 acres
Waterways
on Saxapahaw River; on New River; on Cane Creek; mouth of Caterpillar Creek; mouth of Straight Branch
Neighbors
Mr Lewis Conner; Edward Moseley; Rocky Run
Citation
ODB 3/1
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 4/19

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 3 (look for ODB 3/1). Our record above is drawn from it.

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