John Meacham by Sheriff to John Cain

The deed

Kind of deed

Sheriff's sale

Date

27 September 1815

From

John Meacham

To

John Cain

Acting as

Sheriff

Land

1. Tract 1: 1115 acres
   Waterways: waters of Third Fork of New Hope Creek
   Neighbors: Daniel Green; James Vaughan; Standiford; Joseph Nicks; Pickett

Also conveyed

household & kitchen furniture of John Meacham

Enslaved people named

Phil; Sue; Daniel; Tom

Citation

ODB 15/210
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).

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 February 1816 court, 1 March 1816 (OCPQS 9/157)

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 15/210). Our record above is drawn from it.

Elsewhere in Orange County Indexed

• The record of the enslaved people in this deed: Sheriff's or court sale, 27 September 1815, naming Phil, Sue, Daniel and Tom