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Orange County Indexed

John Elmore & Nancy Elmore to William Hodge

24 November 1787 · ODB 4/514

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
24 November 1787
From
John Elmore; Nancy Elmore
To
William Hodge
Land
200 acres
Waterways
waters of Boyds Creek
Neighbors
Samuel Means; Huffman; Robert Turner
Citation
ODB 4/514
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 4/514). Our record above is drawn from it.

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