George Allen to Alexander Allen

The deed

Kind of deed

Land sale

Date

17 December 1803

From

George Allen

To

Alexander Allen

Land

1. Tract 1: 230 acres, plantation I now live on

Also conveyed

household & kitchen furniture, all my stock, one wagon & horses with farming tools

Enslaved people named

Dick; Bob; Bett; Nance; Jem

Citation

ODB 12/35
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 August 1805 court (OCPQS 7/78)

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 12/35). 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), 17 December 1803, naming Dick, Bob, Bett, Nance and 1 others