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Orange County Indexed

George Gray to John Campbell

20 January 1798 · ODB 7/251

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
20 January 1798
From
George Gray
To
John Campbell
Also conveyed
1 feather bed & bedstead & furniture, 1 cupboard with drawers, 1 pine table, 6 chairs, 1 iron pot, 1 dutch oven, 1 skillet, 6 cups & saucers, 2 bowls, 1 mug, 1 teapot, 1 ax, 1 mattock, 1 hilling hoe, 1/2 my crop of wheat now growing where Thomas now lives & 1 year old sow
Citation
ODB 7/251
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 40004, “Record of Deeds, 1798-1800, Vols. 7, 8” (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 7 (look for ODB 7/251). Our record above is drawn from it.

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