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John Myrick Whitney to John Nichols

18 December 1787 · ODB 4/203

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
18 December 1787
From
John Myrick Whitney
To
John Nichols
Land
  1. First tract: 240 acres
    Waterways: both sides of Forresters Creek
    Neighbors: Robert Davis
  2. Second tract: 196 acres
    Waterways: waters of Little River
Earlier title
General Nash by executor to John Taylor 24 Jan 1778 James Bryant to Sabeus Whitney Jul 1784
Citation
ODB 4/203
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).

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

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 4/203). Our record above is drawn from it.

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