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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Ephraim Mitchell

12 April 1844 · ODB 31/246

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
12 April 1844
From
North Carolina
To
Ephraim Mitchell
Land
3.5 acres
Waterways
waters of Back Creek
Neighbors
Alexander Albright
Citation
ODB 31/246
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 2975

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 31/246). Our record above is drawn from it.

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