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Orange County Indexed

Nathaniel McLemore to David Ray & William Cain & William Kirkland

27 March 1805 · ODB 11/332

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
27 March 1805
From
Nathaniel McLemore
To
David Ray; William Cain; William Kirkland
Enslaved people named
Jenny; Mingo; Peggy; Ester
Citation
ODB 11/332
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).

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 11/332). Our record above is drawn from it.

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