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Deed of gift: Mordecai Southerland to Febe Dossett

Will Book D, page 535 · dated 17 March 1818 · proved August 1818

Mordecai Southerland gave household goods, a cow and yearling to friend Febe Dossett.

Kind of paper
Deed of gift
Made by
Mordecai Southerland (printed MORDECAI SOUTHERLAND)
Dated
17 March 1818
Proved
August 1818 court
To
FEBE DOSSETT (friend)
Witnesses
Jas. Kimbrough; Tyree Glenn
Money and goods
bed and furniture, cow and yearling, pine chest

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 535.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 82.
  • 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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