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Orange County Indexed

Joseph Pevey to William O'Neil

28 October 1783 · ODB 7/55

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
28 October 1783
From
Joseph Pevey
To
William O'Neil
Land
150 acres
Waterways
waters of Little Alamance Creek
Neighbors
Henry Eustace McCulloh; Edward Gwinn
Earlier title
NC to William Rainey
Citation
ODB 7/55
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 7/55). Our record above is drawn from it.

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