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Orange County Indexed

James Smith to James McClure trustee

21 February 1849 · ODB 31/167

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
21 February 1849
From
James Smith
To
James McClure
Acting as
trustee
Land
249 acres
Waterways
waters of Quaker Creek
Neighbors
Williams
Citation
ODB 31/167
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 40016, “Record of Deeds, 1843-1847, Vols. 31, 32” (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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1470
  • Later title: ODB 9/57 (Luke Pendergrass)
  • Later title: ODB 30/324 (Joshua Jeffries)
  • Later title: ODB 29/605 (William Ward)

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 31 (look for ODB 31/167). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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