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Orange County Indexed

Thomas Horton to Edward Harris

5 January 1799 · ODB 8/31

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
5 January 1799
From
Thomas Horton
To
Edward Harris
Land
223 acres
Waterways
on Horse Creek; on Little River
Neighbors
Moore; Horton
Earlier title
William Cheek to Horton
Citation
ODB 8/31
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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 5/561

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 8/31). Our record above is drawn from it.

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