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Orange County Indexed

Henry Murray to John Dorris

21 February 1789 · ODB 4/285

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
21 February 1789
From
Henry Murray
To
John Dorris
Land
204 acres
Waterways
on Quaker Creek
Citation
ODB 4/285
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1041
  • Later title: ODB 5/329 (William Dorris)

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 4/285). Our record above is drawn from it.

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