Orange County Indexed
Wyatt Ballard to John O’Kelly & William M Ballard & Jos Finnel
25 September 1811 · ODB 14/75
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Transfer of enslaved people
- Date
- 25 September 1811
- From
- Wyatt Ballard
- To
- John O’Kelly; William M Ballard; Jos Finnel
- Enslaved people named
- James; Davie; Tom; Abram; Betty; Sarah; Jinney; Hannah; Amos; Natt; Leroy; Luke; Buck; Nelly; Nancy; Beth
- Citation
- ODB 14/75
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 1812 court, 28 May 1812 (OCPQS 8/373)
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 14/75). 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), 25 September 1811, naming James, Davie, Tom, Abram and 12 others
