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Orange County Indexed

George Johnston to Matthew McCauley

13 January 1797 · ODB 6/333

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 January 1797
From
George Johnston
To
Matthew McCauley
Land
132 acres
Neighbors
Henderson; Connally
Earlier title
NC to Austin Hightower|Hightower to James Blackwood|Blackwood to Johnston
Citation
ODB 6/333
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 6 (look for ODB 6/333). Our record above is drawn from it.

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