William Rainey & Benjamin Rainey to Archibald D Murphey trustee

The deed

Kind of deed

Deed of trust or mortgage

Date

27 August 1805

From

William Rainey; Benjamin Rainey

To

Archibald D Murphey

Acting as

trustee

Land

1. First tract: 540 acres, where William Rainey & Benjamin Rainey now live
   Waterways: on Haw River
   Neighbors: William Rainey; Absolam Holt; Cameron
2. Second tract: 420 acres
   Waterways: on Haw River
   Neighbors: John Gant; Findley

Enslaved people named

Flanders; Jack; Dick; Esther; Lewis; Liz; Amos; Mody; Tench; Jim; Bob; Sam; Jenny; Dinah; Peter; Jude

Citation

ODB 12/9
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 7/72)

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 12/9). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed of trust, 27 August 1805, naming Flanders, Jack, Dick, Esther and 12 others
• Archibald D. Murphey, a party to this deed

Other deeds on this page

• ODB 12/9James Hogg Sr to Anne Huske, 18 August 1804