Orange County Indexed
Samuel Hollaway to Absalom Alston
29 September 1815 · ODB 15/177
The deed
- Kind of deed
- Deed of trust or mortgage
- Date
- 29 September 1815
- From
- Samuel Hollaway
- To
- Absalom Alston
- Enslaved people named
- Susee
- Citation
- ODB 15/177
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 40008, “Record of Deeds, 1815-1818, Vols. 15, 16” (State Archives film).
Reading notes: The names follow the county’s records of enslaved people; the published abstract reads Kitty.
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 November 1815 court (OCPQS 9/109)
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 15 (look for ODB 15/177). 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.
Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed
- The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Deed (sale or gift not stated), 18 September 1815, naming Susee
