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Melissa H Sims & Herbert H Sims to Samuel F Patterson trustee

22 February 1871 · ODB 40/309

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
22 February 1871
From
Melissa H Sims; Herbert H Sims
To
Samuel F Patterson
Acting as
trustee
Land
  1. First tract: 398.5 acres
    Waterways: waters of Eno River
Earlier title
second tract, 95 acres on waters of Eno River
Citation
ODB 40/309
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).

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 40/309). Our record above is drawn from it.

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