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David Merideth estate by executor to George Johnston

13 July 1792 · ODB 4/710

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale by executor or administrator
Date
13 July 1792
From
David Merideth estate
To
George Johnston
Acting as
executor
Land
  1. Tract 1: measure not given
    Waterways: on New Hope Creek
    Neighbors: William Blackwood; John Young
Earlier title
James Lashley to George McClelland by will
Citation
ODB 4/710
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 published abstract also gives 520 and 570 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

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 4/710). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.

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