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Thomas Roberts to Thomas Speed trustee & C Parrish trustee

7 March 1845 · ODB 31/171

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
7 March 1845
From
Thomas Roberts
To
Thomas Speed; C Parrish
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. Tract 1: 88 acres
    Waterways: waters of Rocky Creek
    Neighbors: John S Roberts
  2. Tract 2: 50 acres, whereon I now reside
    Waterways: waters of Rocky Creek
Also conveyed
my present growing crop of wheat
Earlier title
land bequeathed to my by my father's will
Citation
ODB 31/171
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

  • See also: OCWB F/119

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 31/171). Our record above is drawn from it.

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