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Orange County Indexed

North Carolina to Boston Graves

19 July 1799 · ODB 8/232

The deed

Kind of deed
Land grant
Date
19 July 1799
From
North Carolina
To
Boston Graves
Land
17 acres
Waterways
waters of Stinking Quarter Creek
Neighbors
Adam Smith
Citation
ODB 8/232
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 2413

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 8/232). Our record above is drawn from it.

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