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Ralph Gorrell to Joseph L Turner

26 October 1853 · ODB 35/254

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
26 October 1853
From
Ralph Gorrell
To
Joseph L Turner
Share conveyed
undivided third
Land
  1. Tract 1: 80 acres
    Waterways: on McGowans Creek
    Neighbors: Thomas Christie; Thomas Thompson; Morgan Hart
Earlier title
NC to William Smith 1846
Citation
ODB 35/254
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

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 35/254). Our record above is drawn from it.

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