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Charles Carroll to Stephen Wilson

21 July 1784 · ODB 3/131

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 July 1784
From
Charles Carroll
To
Stephen Wilson
Land
  1. First tract: 100 acres
    Neighbors: Henry McCulloh
  2. Second tract: 170 acres
    Waterways: waters of Little River
    Neighbors: Stephen Wilson; Archer Harris
    Roads and landmarks: Charles Carroll's field
Earlier title
John Duke to John Hunter 16 Jul 1770 , Hunter to Carroll 17 Jan 1778
Citation
ODB 3/131
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1660
  • Earlier title: ODB 3/316
  • Earlier title: OCPQS 3/60
  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/411

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 3/131). Our record above is drawn from it.

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