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Orange County Indexed

Cornelius Fogerty to Samuel Smith

7 March 1795 · ODB 8/348

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
7 March 1795
From
Cornelius Fogerty
To
Samuel Smith
Land
285 acres
Waterways
waters of Ellerbe Creek; head of Suck Branch
Neighbors
Job Farmer; Robert Hall; William Mebane
Roads and landmarks
Wake County line
Citation
ODB 8/348
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 8/348). Our record above is drawn from it.

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