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Orange County Indexed

William Mebane to Alexander Mebane

13 January 1783 · ODB 11/51

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
13 January 1783
From
William Mebane
To
Alexander Mebane
Enslaved people named
Lucy
Citation
ODB 11/51
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

  • Proved at: OCPQS 6/436

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 11/51). Our record above is drawn from it.

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