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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Turrentine Sr to David Nutt

1 July 1797 · ODB 8/16

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
1 July 1797
From
Samuel Turrentine Sr
To
David Nutt
Land
202 acres
Waterways
N Fork of Little River; mouth of Indian Branch
Neighbors
John Neely; Edward Wortham; Samuel Turrentine
Citation
ODB 8/16
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 8 (look for ODB 8/16). Our record above is drawn from it.

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