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Orange County Indexed

Edmund Jones to Alston Jones

6 August 1794 · ODB 5/272

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
6 August 1794
From
Edmund Jones
To
Alston Jones
Land
89.5 acres
Waterways
on Morgan Creek; on Banks Branch
Neighbors
Edward Jones; William Merritt; Banks Cabin
Roads and landmarks
William Merritt's Mill
Citation
ODB 5/272
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 5/272). Our record above is drawn from it.

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