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Joseph Thompson estate by commissioners to Thomas Thompson & John Thompson & Samuel Thompson & Alexander Thompson & Lavinia Thompson & Joseph Thompson & Jannet Thompson & Elizabeth Thompson & Eleanor Thompson & Daniel Foust & Eleanor Foust.

10 November 1842 · ODB 35/489

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 November 1842
From
Joseph Thompson
To
Thomas Thompson; John Thompson; Samuel Thompson; Alexander Thompson; Lavinia Thompson; Joseph Thompson; Jannet Thompson; Elizabeth Thompson; Eleanor Thompson; Daniel Foust; Eleanor Foust
Acting as
commissioners
Share conveyed
half of
Land
  1. Tract 1: 192 acres
    Neighbors: Joseph Thompson
    Roads and landmarks: the buckhorn road
  2. Tract 2: 209 acres, bounded by lot 1
    Roads and landmarks: the ridge road
  3. Tract 3: 209 acres, bounded by lots 2, 1
    Neighbors: Wood
  4. Tract 4: 202 acres, bounded by lot 3
    Neighbors: Wood; Minnis'
  5. Tract 5: 202 acres
    Neighbors: Mary Woods
  6. Tract 6: 199 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Roads and landmarks: head of a drain
  7. Tract 7: 5 acres
    Waterways: on Big Cane Creek
    Neighbors: Thomas Thompson
    Roads and landmarks: old ford; the mill dam
Citation
ODB 35/489
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 35/489). Our record above is drawn from it.

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