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Orange County Indexed

David Williams to Robert Ray

10 May 1799 · ODB 8/50

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
10 May 1799
From
David Williams
To
Robert Ray
Land
277.5 acres
Waterways
waters of Eno River
Neighbors
James Wilkinson
Earlier title
John Dowell to Ralph Williams 2 Jun 1759|Ralph Williams to David Williams 11 Nov 1785
Citation
ODB 8/50
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 8/50). Our record above is drawn from it.

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