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Jesse Benton estate by executor & Joseph Taylor to David Dickey

19 April 1799 · ODB 7/466

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale by executor or administrator
Date
19 April 1799
From
Jesse Benton; Joseph Taylor
To
David Dickey
Acting as
executor
Land
150 acres
Neighbors
John Nichols; Joseph Ray
Earlier title
Sheriff to Benton
Citation
ODB 7/466
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

  • Earlier title: OWB B/144
  • In the will books: Will of Jesse Benton (our record of the paper the deed cites)

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 7/466). Our record above is drawn from it.

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