Absalom Tatum to Robinson Mumford

The deed

Kind of deed

Town lot sale

Date

8 June 1787

From

Absalom Tatum

To

Robinson Mumford

Land

lots 54, 55, in Hillsborough, bounded by lot 53

Roads and landmarks

Wake Street; Town Commons

Citation

ODB 4/125
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 40002, “Record of Deeds, 1785-1793, Vols. 3, 4” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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

• Proved at the August 1787 court (OCPQS 4/74)

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 4 (look for ODB 4/125). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

• Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.