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Hugh Findley to Barnabas O’Farrell

3 April 1798 · ODB 8/304

The deed

Kind of deed
Town lot sale
Date
3 April 1798
From
Hugh Findley
To
Barnabas O’Farrell
Land
lots 131, 132, 133, in Hillsborough, bounded by lots 134, 146
Waterways
on Eno River
Roads and landmarks
Margaret Lane
Earlier title
Hillsborough to Joseph Dixon 6 Mar 1787|Dixon to Findley 23 Nov 1787
Citation
ODB 8/304
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: The abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 8/304). Our record above is drawn from it.

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