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Orange County Indexed

John Nichols late Sheriff to Absalom Tatom

23 November 1789 · ODB 4/562

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
23 November 1789
From
John Nichols late
To
Absalom Tatom
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
135.5 acres
Waterways
on Buck Quarter Creek
Neighbors
Anthony Doherty; William Jackson; Jacob Brenton
Earlier title
NC to John Baldwin 9 Nov 1784|Frances Baldwin to Isabella Harrison 26 May 1785
Citation
ODB 4/562
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 4/562). Our record above is drawn from it.

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