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Orange County Indexed

David Thornberger to John Clark Sr

19 December 1788 · ODB 4/394

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
19 December 1788
From
David Thornberger
To
John Clark Sr
Land
165 acres
Waterways
Spoons Creek; on Stinking Quarter Creek
Neighbors
Henry Eustace McCulloh
Roads and landmarks
Guilford County line
Citation
ODB 4/394
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 4/394). Our record above is drawn from it.

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