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Orange County Indexed

Alexander Duncan Moore to John Fairman

14 Aug 179_ · ODB 5/17

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
Unknown
From
Alexander Duncan Moore
To
John Fairman
Land
262.5 acres
Waterways
both sides of Morgan Creek
Earlier title
Thomas Durham to Mark Morgan
Citation
ODB 5/17
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 40003, “Record of Deeds, 1787-1798, Vols. 5, 6” (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 5 (look for ODB 5/17). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • The date could not be read with certainty.

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