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John Powell & Mary Powell to Elias Powell Jr

19 January 1779 · ODB 6/73

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
19 January 1779
From
John Powell; Mary Powell
To
Elias Powell Jr
Land
  1. Tract 1: 139 acres
    Waterways: on Haw River
    Neighbors: Elias Powell Sr
Earlier title
part of 970 acres Henry McCulloh to John Powell Sr
Citation
ODB 6/73
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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 3/383

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 6/73). Our record above is drawn from it.

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