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Orange County Indexed

Andrew Murdock Sheriff to William Kirkland

16 October 1799 · ODB 8/251

The deed

Kind of deed
Sheriff's sale
Date
16 October 1799
From
Andrew Murdock
To
William Kirkland
Acting as
Sheriff
Land
385 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Neighbors
James Hogg; William Hooper; Hill; Pickett
Roads and landmarks
the Great Road; the Old Road; Halifax Road
Citation
ODB 8/251
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 8/251). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

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