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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Moore to Richard Cate

4 November 1791 · ODB 4/519

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
4 November 1791
From
Thomas Moore
To
Richard Cate
Land
431 acres
Waterways
on Cane Creek; on New River; on Caterpillar Creek; on Straight Branch
Neighbors
Cates; James Ball; James Moore
Citation
ODB 4/519
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 4/519). Our record above is drawn from it.

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