Orange County Indexed
Jeremiah Lea to John Shofner
19 September 1812 · ODB 14/423
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 19 September 1812
- From
- Jeremiah Lea
- To
- John Shofner
- Enslaved people named
- Darkis
- Citation
- ODB 14/423
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 8/605
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 14/423). 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), 19 September 1812, naming Darkis
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 13 May 1813, naming Bird
