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Orange County Indexed

Uriah Slade to George Lee

28 September 1803 · ODB 11/328

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
28 September 1803
From
Uriah Slade
To
George Lee
Enslaved people named
Darkis; Het
Citation
ODB 11/328
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 Darkis.

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

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 11/328). Our record above is drawn from it.

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