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Orange County Indexed

Samuel Nelson to Hugh Smith

December 1755 · Register of Orange, line 172

The deed

Kind of deed
Land sale
Date
December 1755
From
Samuel Nelson
To
Hugh Smith
Land
425 acres
Citation
Register of Orange, line 172

Reading notes: Only the month or court term is given.

Names, places and measures are given as the published abstract writes them. This record has not been checked against the deed image.

Published abstract by Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds: Recovered Colonial Deeds of Orange County (The Deed Book Zero Project) (look for Register of Orange, line 172). Our record above is drawn from it.

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