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Orange County Indexed

Gilbert Strayhorn to New Hope Congregation

16 July 1796 · ODB 5/486

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
16 July 1796
From
Gilbert Strayhorn
To
New Hope Congregation
Land
100 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Neighbors
James Craig; William F Thompson
Roads and landmarks
the Meeting House Spring
Citation
ODB 5/486
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 5/486). Our record above is drawn from it.

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