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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to James Baldridge

8 December 1797 · ODB 7/461

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
8 December 1797
From
North Carolina
To
James Baldridge
Land
  1. Tract 1: 294 acres
    Waterways: waters of Little River
    Neighbors: Thomas Person; Mulhollan; William McKee; Thomas Roundtree; Daniel McMahon; Robert Berry
    Roads and landmarks: Great Road
Citation
ODB 7/461
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 2280

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 7/461). Our record above is drawn from it.

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