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Benjamin Rainey & Nancy Rainey to Michael Holt

12 October 1784 · ODB 6/71

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
12 October 1784
From
Benjamin Rainey; Nancy Rainey
To
Michael Holt
Land
12 acres
Waterways
on Haw River; on Old Holts Spring Branch
Neighbors
George Holt
Roads and landmarks
Old Holts Spring
Earlier title
NC to Rainey
Citation
ODB 6/71
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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 6 (look for ODB 6/71). Our record above is drawn from it.

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