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William Dickens & Robert Dickens to Henry Nolner

10 April 1797 · ODB 6/137

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 April 1797
From
William Dickens; Robert Dickens
To
Henry Nolner
Land
  1. First tract: 125 acres
    Waterways: on Flat River; on Deep Creek
    Neighbors: Gibson
    Roads and landmarks: Person County line
  2. Second tract: 430 acres
    Waterways: mouth of a branch
    Neighbors: Carrington
    Roads and landmarks: old mill path; mill seat
Citation
ODB 6/137
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 published abstract also gives 555 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 6 (look for ODB 6/137). Our record above is drawn from it.

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