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Orange County Indexed

Henry Thompson Sr to James Thompson

13 September 1800 · ODB 9/166

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
13 September 1800
From
Henry Thompson Sr
To
James Thompson
Land
200 acres
Waterways
both sides of Eno River; on Hastings Creek
Neighbors
William Whitted; William Courtney; Thomas Crabtree; John Thompson; Absalom Tatum; Tatum
Citation
ODB 9/166
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 abstract gives some bounds by direction (north, south and so on); the neighbors are listed here without them.

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 9/166). Our record above is drawn from it.

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