John Fearman by Sheriff to Samuel Benton

The deed

Kind of deed

Sheriff's sale

Date

21 August 1797

From

John Fearman

To

Samuel Benton

Acting as

Sheriff

Land

lot 21, in Hillsborough, bounded by lots 31, 22

Roads and landmarks

King Street; Wake Street

Citation

ODB 6/374
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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

• Proved at the February 1798 court, 27 February 1798 (OCPQS 5/358)

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 6/374). Our record above is drawn from it.