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Robert Faucett & James Faucett & Ralph Faucett & William Faucett to Jacob Lake

18 October 1781 · ODB 4/68

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
18 October 1781
From
Robert Faucett; James Faucett; Ralph Faucett; William Faucett
To
Jacob Lake
Land
485 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Neighbors
Gray; Lapsley
Citation
ODB 4/68
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).

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 4/68). Our record above is drawn from it.

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