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Dial Pevey to Michael Holt

22 July 1771 · ODB 3/606

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
22 July 1771
From
Dial Pevey
To
Michael Holt
Land
  1. Tract 1: 164 acres
    Neighbors: Boggs
    Roads and landmarks: the brow of a hill; a flat rock; Cape Fear Road
  2. Held back from the sale: 1.75 acres
Earlier title
sold Adam Smith Joseph Boggs to Dial Pevey 13 Jun 1759 Pevey to Smith
Citation
ODB 3/606
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 3/606). Our record above is drawn from it.

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