William Forsyth to James Barnett & John Barnett & Ann Barnett & Margaret Barnett & Gilley Barnett

The deed

Kind of deed

Transfer of enslaved people

Date

30 October 1809

From

William Forsyth

To

James Barnett; John Barnett; Ann Barnett; Margaret Barnett; Gilley Barnett

Neighbors

Jesse Neville; M McCauley; John Joy Sr

Enslaved people named

Simon; Cato; Mary; Sam; Amey

Citation

ODB 13/400
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 August 1810 court, 31 August 1810 (OCPQS 8/103)

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 13/400). 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 October 1809, naming Simon, Cato, Mary, Sam and 1 others