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Thomas Persons by Sheriff to Horace L Roberts

1 September 1847 · ODB 33/12

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
1 September 1847
From
Thomas Persons
To
Horace L Roberts
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
  1. Tract 1: 600 acres
    Waterways: waters of Eno River; waters of Hico Creek
    Neighbors: Andrew McBroom; Keeling
  2. Tract 2: 640 acres
    Waterways: waters of Eno River; waters of Little River
Citation
ODB 33/12
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 40017, “Record of Deeds, 1841-1856, Vols. 33, 34” (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 33 (look for ODB 33/12). Our record above is drawn from it.

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