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Orange County Indexed

Richard Henderson & Elizabeth Henderson to William Piggott

8 September 1769 · ODB 3/204

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
8 September 1769
From
Richard Henderson; Elizabeth Henderson
To
William Piggott
Land
240 acres
Waterways
on Haw River; on Rocky River
Neighbors
Thomas Brantley
Earlier title
Henry McCulloh to Richard Henderson 12 Jan 1760
Citation
ODB 3/204
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

  • Later title: CDB H/55 (William McMasters)

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 3/204). Our record above is drawn from it.

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