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Orange County Indexed

Moses Hutchins to William Herndon

1796 · ODB 7/85

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1796
From
Moses Hutchins
To
William Herndon
Land
80 acres
Waterways
on First Creek; Second Creek; on New Hope Creek
Neighbors
Page Patterson; William Rhodes; William Pickett
Earlier title
NC to Hutchins
Citation
ODB 7/85
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: Only the year is given.

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 7/85). Our record above is drawn from it.

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