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Orange County Indexed

John Haney to Nicholas Hardin

7 January 1797 · ODB 5/786

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
7 January 1797
From
John Haney
To
Nicholas Hardin
Land
  1. Tract 1: 200 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Neighbors: Lewis Garner; Henry McClure; John McCaleb
  2. Held back from the sale: 19 acres
Earlier title
part of NC to William Harper
Citation
ODB 5/786
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: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 5/786). Our record above is drawn from it.

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