James Melvin to Joel C Boon trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

1 January 1849

From

James Melvin

To

Joel C Boon

Acting as

trustee

Share conveyed

half of

Land

1. Tract 1: 51 acres
   Waterways: on Jacobs Creek
   Neighbors: Laws Rumbley; Lewis Melvin; James Melvin; John Faucett
2. Tract 2: 83.5 acres
   Neighbors: John Faucett; Peter Gerringer; Melvin
3. Tract 3: 85 acres
   Neighbors: Peter Gerringer; Boston Isley

Also conveyed

300 bushels of wheat, 5 stacks of fodder, 6 stacks of hay, half of a threshing machine, household and kitchen furniture; 1 bay horse; 1 bay mare; 1 sorrel mare; 1 road wagon; 4 head of cows; 9 head of sheep; 27 head of hogs; 1 crib of corn

Earlier title

the place near Philemon Ireland now lives called the old place

Citation

ODB 33/173
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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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 33 (look for ODB 33/173). Our record above is drawn from it.