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Isaac Edwards to Samuel Clenning

6 February 1771 · ODB 3/539

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 February 1771
From
Isaac Edwards
To
Samuel Clenning
Land
  1. First tract: 316 acres
    Waterways: fork of Buck Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: Tyree Harris; Jonathan Fincher; Nathan Howard
  2. Second tract: 165 acres
    Waterways: both sides of branch of Buck Quarter Creek
    Neighbors: Richard Fincher; Captain Synnott; Holden
Citation
ODB 3/539
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

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 3/539). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

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