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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Allen Minnis

6 March 1856 · ODB 35/30

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
6 March 1856
From
North Carolina
To
Allen Minnis
Land
150 acres
Waterways
waters of Haw River
Neighbors
Thomas Squires; Wilson Brown; Samuel Jones; Thomas Gill; John Thompson
Citation
ODB 35/30
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 3027
  • Later title: ODB 35/31 (Young Minnis)

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 35/30). Our record above is drawn from it.

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