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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Walter Alves

8 January 1797 · ODB 6/440

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
8 January 1797
From
North Carolina
To
Walter Alves
Land
28.5 acres
Waterways
on Little River
Neighbors
John Cain; Thomas Sutton
Citation
ODB 6/440
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 2218

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 6/440). Our record above is drawn from it.

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