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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Coneley to John Ferrington

23 January 1793 · ODB 5/7

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 January 1793
From
Thomas Coneley
To
John Ferrington
Land
110 acres
Waterways
on Gully Branch; on Prices Creek; mouth of Chestnut Ridge Branch
Neighbors
John Wilson; Hightower; Pomfret Herndon; Hagwoods Cabin; Jesse Nevell
Roads and landmarks
Hightower's Old Path; Chatham County line
Citation
ODB 5/7
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 5/7). Our record above is drawn from it.

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