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Mary M Herndon & Charles G Markham to Willis Markham trustee & Charles G Markham trustee & George M Shepherd trustee & Mordicai Sear trustee & H J Pearson trustee & Missionary Baptist Church

16 June 1857 · ODB 35/307

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
16 June 1857
From
Mary M Herndon; Charles G Markham
To
Willis Markham; Charles G Markham; George M Shepherd; Mordicai Sear; H J Pearson; Missionary Baptist Church
Acting as
trustee
Land
4 acres
Waterways
waters of New Hope Creek
Citation
ODB 35/307
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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 35 (look for ODB 35/307). Our record above is drawn from it.

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