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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Nelson to John Nelson

29 August 1787 · ODB 4/734

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
29 August 1787
From
Samuel Nelson
To
John Nelson
Land
147 acres
Neighbors
Alexander Mebane Sr
Earlier title
Samuel Strudwick to Samuel Nelson
Citation
ODB 4/734
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 4/734). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.

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