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Orange County Indexed

Robert Scoby & Lucy Scoby to Solomon Debow & Stephen Debow by guardian

17 April 1797 · ODB 7/435

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
17 April 1797
From
Robert Scoby; Lucy Scoby
To
Solomon Debow; Stephen Debow
Acting as
guardian
Waterways
on Eno River
Earlier title
William Lackey to John Debow
Citation
ODB 7/435
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 7/435). Our record above is drawn from it.

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