James Laurence to John Taylor

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

30 November 1805

From

James Laurence

To

John Taylor

Enslaved people named

Hannah; Sylvia; Celia; Judy

Citation

ODB 12/297
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 the February 1807 court, 27 February 1807 (OCPQS 7/254)

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 12 (look for ODB 12/297). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 30 November 1805, naming Hannah, Sylvia, Celia and Judy