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Deed of gift: Hardy Morgan to Jas. Patterson

Will Book C, page 18 · dated 18 November 1793 · proved August 1794

Hardy Morgan gave James Patterson permission to cut large pine trees.

Kind of paper
Deed of gift
Made by
Hardy Morgan (printed HARDY MORGAN)
Dated
18 November 1793
Proved
August 1794 court
To
JAS. PATTERSON (my friend & neighbor; of Chatham Co., N.C.)
Witness
John McCauley (Jr.)
Deeds that cite this paper
Deed Book 6, page 226
Land
to Sam’l Allen’s line... to land adjoining Christopher Barbee’s
Also named
Sam’l Allen (adjoining landowner); Christopher Barbee (adjoining landowner)

Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.

Where to find it

  • Orange County Will Book C, page 18.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
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