Andrew Murdock Sheriff to Samuel Benton

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

4 July 1797

From

Andrew Murdock

To

Samuel Benton

Acting as

Sheriff

Land

lots 136, 137, 138, 139, in Hillsborough, bounded by lot 135

Roads and landmarks

Wake Street; Margaret Lane

Citation

ODB 7/43
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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 abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 the May 1798 court (OCPQS 5/401)

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 7/43). Our record above is drawn from it.