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John Reeves estate by executor to Priscilla Reeves

2 January 1855 · ODB 35/140

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale by executor or administrator
Date
2 January 1855
From
John Reeves
To
Priscilla Reeves
Acting as
executor
Land
246.5 acres
Waterways
Fork of Morgan Creek
Earlier title
NC to John Maxident 17 Nov 1790
Citation
ODB 35/140
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 40018, “Record of Deeds, 1856-1862, Vols. 35, 36” (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 1948

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 35 (look for ODB 35/140). Our record above is drawn from it.

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