Moses Jones by Sheriff to Rachel Jones

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

14 April 1808

From

Moses Jones

To

Rachel Jones

Acting as

Sheriff

Enslaved people named

Henrietta; Bob; Winney; Cato

Citation

ODB 13/147
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 the May 1808 court (OCPQS 7/409)

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 13/147). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Sheriff's or court sale, 14 April 1808, naming Henrietta, Bob, Winney and Cato