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Memucan Hunt & William Lytle to Absalom Tatom, __ Apr 1797

April 1797 · ODB 5/756

The deed

Kind of deed
Town lot sale
Date
April 1797
From
Memucan Hunt; William Lytle
To
Absalom Tatom
Land
1650 square feet, lot 25, in Hillsborough
Neighbors
Young Miller
Roads and landmarks
King Street
Earlier title
John Nichols to Hunt
Citation
ODB 5/756
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).

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

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 5/756). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • Part of the abstract is unclear or incomplete.
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