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John Cable to Israel Holt

23 February 1799 · ODB 8/51

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
23 February 1799
From
John Cable
To
Israel Holt
Land
175 acres
Waterways
waters of Travis Creek; on Haw River
Citation
ODB 8/51
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

  • State grant file: Ofile 1572
  • Proved at the May 1799 court (OCPQS 5/545)

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 8/51). Our record above is drawn from it.

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