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Orange County Indexed

Lemuel Pickett to Caleb Wilson trustee

26 August 1845 · ODB 31/346

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
26 August 1845
From
Lemuel Pickett
To
Caleb Wilson
Acting as
trustee
Land
98.33 acres
Waterways
waters of Back Creek
Neighbors
Sanders Riley; Miss Ann Debruler
Citation
ODB 31/346
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

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 31/346). Our record above is drawn from it.

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