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Orange County Indexed

Deed: Robert (x) Burnside to Thomas Faucett

Will Book D, page 172 · dated 9 November 1798

Robert Burnside sold land on Eno and Haw Rivers to Thomas Faucett; both were of Orange County, North Carolina.

Kind of paper
Deed
Made by
Robert (x) Burnside (printed ROBERT (x) BURNSIDE), of Orange Co., N.C.
Dated
9 November 1798
Proved
1806 (no day or month given)
To
Thomas Faucett (of Orange Co., N.C.)
Witnesses
Owin Lindley; Chas ? Stubbins
Land
land on Eno and Haw Rivers

Reading note: Probate year only, no month; Chas ? Stubbins uncertain as printed.

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 D, page 172.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 28.
  • 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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