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Orange County Indexed

Eaton Walker to James M Palmer

2 January 1844 · ODB 30/352

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
2 January 1844
From
Eaton Walker
To
James M Palmer
Land
  1. Tract 1: 83.4 acres
    Waterways: on Cates Creek
    Neighbors: George Pratt; Jonathan W Norwood; Sneed; Ruffin
  2. Tract 2: 23.25 acres
    Waterways: on Cates Creek
    Neighbors: Sneed; Ruffin; Pratt
    Roads and landmarks: Chapel Hill new road; Chapel Hill old road
Citation
ODB 30/352
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 40015, “Record of Deeds, 1836-1844, Vols. 29, 30” (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 30 (look for ODB 30/352). Our record above is drawn from it.

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