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Orange County Indexed

James C Turrentine & Margaret M Turrentine to Ruffin R Tapp

15 November 1870 · ODB 40/259

The deed

Kind of deed
Town lot sale
Date
15 November 1870
From
James C Turrentine; Margaret M Turrentine
To
Ruffin R Tapp
Land
lots 120, 121, in Hillsborough, bounded by lot 119
Roads and landmarks
King Street; Wake Street
Citation
ODB 40/259
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 40020, “Record of Deeds, 1869-1872, Vols. 39, 40” (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 40 (look for ODB 40/259). Our record above is drawn from it.

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