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Hardawick Davis to John Latta

10 February 1787 · ODB 3/168

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 February 1787
From
Hardawick Davis
To
John Latta
Land
  1. First tract: 64 acres
    Waterways: on S Fork of Little River
    Neighbors: John Dunagan
  2. Second tract: 250 acres
    Waterways: on S Fork of Little River
    Neighbors: James Faucett; John Kelly
Earlier title
William Jackson to Hardwick Davis 15 Mar 1784
Citation
ODB 3/168
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

  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 344
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 549
  • Register of Orange reference: RegLn 2573
  • State grant file: Ofile 1346
  • Later title: ODB 3/418 (John Pinkerton)
  • Later title: ODB 2/407
  • See also: OCPQS 3/355
  • See also: OCPQS 3/539
  • Later title: ODB 4/402 (James Jackson)

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 3/168). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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