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Thomas Sykes by trustee to James M Workman

23 December 1853 · ODB 34/407

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
23 December 1853
From
Thomas Sykes
To
James M Workman
Acting as
trustee
Land
60 acres
Waterways
waters of Cane Creek; on Lick Branch
Neighbors
Wyatt Cates; David Williams
Citation
ODB 34/407
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 34 (look for ODB 34/407). Our record above is drawn from it.

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