Orange County Indexed
Malachi Isley Sr to Malachi Isley Jr
10 July 1804 · ODB 11/230
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 10 July 1804
- From
- Malachi Isley Sr
- To
- Malachi Isley Jr
- Enslaved people named
- Jenny; Bill; Sally; Joshua; Eve
- Citation
- ODB 11/230
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 40006, “Record of Deeds, 1803-1807, Vols. 11, 12” (State Archives film).
Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Peggy, Julius.
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
- Proved at the August 1804 court, 28 August 1804 (OCPQS 6/573)
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 11 (look for ODB 11/230). Our record above is drawn from it.
Notes for researchers
- On this page, Chilton’s abstracts may give a deed the parties of its neighbor: UNC Greensboro’s catalog of slave deeds disagrees with them here, and on pages checked against the deed images the catalog was right. Check the deed image before relying on the parties.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 4 April 1804, naming Jenny, Bill, Sally, Joshua and 1 others
