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Orange County Indexed

Richard Foster to William Freeman

9 December 1799 · ODB 9/214

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
9 December 1799
From
Richard Foster
To
William Freeman
Land
53 acres
Waterways
both sides of Back Creek
Neighbors
McAdam
Roads and landmarks
McAdam's Ford
Earlier title
William Means to James Turner|Turner to Foster 6 Feb 1786
Citation
ODB 9/214
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).

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 9/214). Our record above is drawn from it.

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