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Harriet Strayhorn & W F Strayhorn to Lycurgus Edgerton

18 January 1868 · ODB 37/503

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
18 January 1868
From
Harriet Strayhorn; W F Strayhorn
To
Lycurgus Edgerton
Land
  1. Tract 1: 200 acres
    Waterways: waters of Eno River; waters of New Hope Creek
    Neighbors: William F Strayhorn; William Crabtree; James Workman
    Roads and landmarks: the public road to Chapel Hill
Earlier title
being two thirds of tract granted NC to William Kennedy in 1780 , sold to Samuel Thompson
Citation
ODB 37/503
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 40019, “Record of Deeds, 1862-1869, Vols. 37, 38” (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 915
  • Earlier title: ODB 2/326
  • Later title: ODB 34/506 (William F Strayhorn)

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 37 (look for ODB 37/503). Our record above is drawn from it.

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