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Robert Nelson & Mary Nelson to John Nichols

3 September 1789 · ODB 4/237

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
3 September 1789
From
Robert Nelson; Mary Nelson
To
John Nichols
Neighbors
James Shaw; Baker
Citation
ODB 4/237
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 November 1789 court (minutes OCPQS 4/249; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 4/247)

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 4/237). Our record above is drawn from it.

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