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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Michael Moser

25 August 1786 · ODB 4/159

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
25 August 1786
From
North Carolina
To
Michael Moser
Land
  1. Tract 1: bounded by lot 41
    Waterways: waters of Rock Creek
    Neighbors: Joseph Albright; Benjamin Pickett
Earlier title
sold as confiscated land of Henry Eustace McCulloh
Citation
ODB 4/159
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 published abstract also gives 116 and 115 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

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 1716

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 4/159). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

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