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Africa Parker to William Cain & David Ray & James Yarbrough

8 December 1800 · ODB 9/147

The deed

Kind of deed
Deed of trust or mortgage
Date
8 December 1800
From
Africa Parker
To
William Cain; David Ray; James Yarbrough
Share conveyed
interest in W half
Land
  1. Tract 1: lot 40, in Hillsborough
    Roads and landmarks: King Street; Tryon Street
  2. Tract 2: lot 30, in Hillsborough
    Roads and landmarks: King Street; Tryon Street
Also conveyed
still, equipment, right to timber on 100 acres
Earlier title
Watts leased to Parker W half of lot 30 & lot 40 in Hillsborough
Citation
ODB 9/147
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 40005, “Record of Deeds, 1800-1803, Vols. 9, 10” (State Archives film).

Reading notes: The published abstract also gives 100 and 100 acres, figures not assigned to any one tract here.

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 9 (look for ODB 9/147). Our record above is drawn from it.

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