Delia Smith & James S Smith to Mary R Smith

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

21 November 1845

From

Delia Smith; James S Smith

To

Mary R Smith

Land

1. Tract 1: 1000 acres
   Waterways: waters of Prices Creek
   Neighbors: Martha McCauley
2. Tract 2: 200 acres, the Massey tract
   Neighbors: George McCauley
   Roads and landmarks: known as the Massey tract
3. Tract 3: 55 acres, the Pendergrass tract
   Neighbors: William H Merritt
4. Tract 4: 200 acres
   Roads and landmarks: county line
5. Tract 5: 197 acres, the Wood tract
   Roads and landmarks: Chatham County line
6. Tract 6: 80 acres
   Roads and landmarks: the Wood tract; on E side of the Fayetteville road
7. Tract 7: 400 acres, the Fann land
   Waterways: on Prices Creek
   Neighbors: William H Merritt
   Roads and landmarks: original Prices Creek tract

Also conveyed

stills, hogsheads, apparatus of the distillery, threshing machine, fan & fixtures about the barn; blacksmith tools

Earlier title

given by Colonel Samuel Park to his son-in-law Francis Jones, from Jones to his son-in-law James S Smith these two tracts conveyed to Smith by William Oldham these three tracts conveyed to Smith by Joel Parrish

Citation

ODB 31/398
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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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 31 (look for ODB 31/398). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• James Strudwick Smith, a party to this deed