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Orange County Indexed

John Brown to Ruth Faucett

3 August 1808 · ODB 14/31

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
3 August 1808
From
John Brown
To
Ruth Faucett
Enslaved people named
Grace
Citation
ODB 14/31
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).

Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Milley, James.

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

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 14 (look for ODB 14/31). Our record above is drawn from it.

Notes for researchers

  • On this page, Chilton’s abstracts may give a deed the parties of its neighbor: UNC Greensboro’s catalog of slave deeds disagrees with them here, and on pages checked against the deed images the catalog was right. Check the deed image before relying on the parties.

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