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Orange County Indexed

Adam Marley to James Bowers

5 ___ 1788 · ODB 4/80

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
Unknown
From
Adam Marley
To
James Bowers
Land
200 acres
Waterways
waters of Haw River; mouth of Deep Creek
Earlier title
NC to Marley 9 Nov 1784
Citation
ODB 4/80
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1665
  • Same deed also recorded at: ODB 4/730
  • Proved at: OCPQS 4/178

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 4/80). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The date could not be read with certainty.
  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
  • The compiler notes this may repeat another entry.
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