Orange County Indexed
John Sherlock to Abner Tapp
20 November 1789 · ODB 13/140
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 20 November 1789
- From
- John Sherlock
- To
- Abner Tapp
- Enslaved people named
- Scarborough; Joshua; Jane
- Citation
- ODB 13/140
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 40007, “Record of Deeds, 1807-1815, Vols. 13, 14” (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 7/413
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 13 (look for ODB 13/140). 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), 20 November 1789, naming Scarborough, Joshua and Jane
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 18 January 1799, naming Nanie
