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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to James Baldridge

15 February 1799 · ODB 7/392

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
15 February 1799
From
North Carolina
To
James Baldridge
Land
  1. Tract 1: 250 acres
    Waterways: waters of Little River; waters of Flat River
    Neighbors: William Lockhart; Allison; James McCullock; Rugley; Mebane; Baldridge
    Roads and landmarks: Person County line
Citation
ODB 7/392
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).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 200 acres, a figure not assigned to any one tract here.

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 2297

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 7/392). Our record above is drawn from it.

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