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Orange County Indexed

Willis Cooper to Thomas Watts

12 September 1797 · ODB 8/28

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
12 September 1797
From
Willis Cooper
To
Thomas Watts
Land
300 acres
Neighbors
Robeson Mumford; German Baxter
Citation
ODB 8/28
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.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Orange County Deed Book 8 (look for ODB 8/28). Our record above is drawn from it.

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