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Orange County Indexed

Martin Palmer to Joseph Ellison Sr

28 October 1814 · ODB 15/253

The deed

Kind of deed
Transfer of enslaved people
Date
28 October 1814
From
Martin Palmer
To
Joseph Ellison Sr
Enslaved people named
Dick
Citation
ODB 15/253
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 August 1816 court (minutes OCPQS 9/215; the deed-book note gives OCPQS 9/176)

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 15/253). Our record above is drawn from it.

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