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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to John Kelly

9 January 1851 · ODB 34/74

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
9 January 1851
From
North Carolina
To
John Kelly
Land
690 acres
Waterways
on Eno River
Neighbors
John McDade; Solomon Thompson; John Kelly; McMan; Thomas Pedigrew; William Peelor; Robert Anderson; Rachael Farrow; Alexander Anderson; Stephen Clark
Citation
ODB 34/74
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 3020

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 34/74). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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