William Harper & Elizabeth Harper to John Melvin & Nancy Melvin

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

23 November 1789

From

William Harper; Elizabeth Harper

To

John Melvin; Nancy Melvin

Land

250 acres

Waterways

both sides of Plum Branch; on Harpers Branch

Neighbors

John Howell; Samuel Parks

Citation

ODB 4/296
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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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 4 (look for ODB 4/296). Our record above is drawn from it.