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Eaton Jeffreys & Henry Jeffreys & Stephen Jeffreys & Addison Jeffreys to W A Lea trustee

2 June 1845 · ODB 31/242

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
2 June 1845
From
Eaton Jeffreys; Henry Jeffreys; Stephen Jeffreys; Addison Jeffreys
To
W A Lea
Acting as
trustee
Land
202 acres
Waterways
waters of Jordans Creek
Neighbors
James Harrison; Elizabeth Grey; Andrew McCauley Jr
Citation
ODB 31/242
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).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 1440
  • Later title: ODB 12/37 (Andrew McClary)
  • Later title: ODB 16/287 (Robert Scott)
  • Later title: ODB 25/254 (Drew Jeffres)

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 31/242). Our record above is drawn from it.

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