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Thomas Patton by administrator to John Patton Jr

18 February 1795 · ODB 8/85

The deed

Kind of deed
Sale by executor or administrator
Date
18 February 1795
From
Thomas Patton
To
John Patton Jr
Acting as
administrator
Land
320 acres
Waterways
on Varnels Creek
Earlier title
NC to Thomas Patton 9 Nov 1784
Citation
ODB 8/85
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 8/85). Our record above is drawn from it.

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